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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectators jammed together to see the show. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was beginning hearings on the North Atlantic Treaty and Secretary of State Dean Acheson was the first witness. As photographers flashed and popped, they noted that Acheson's mustache had been clipped down from its usual pukka sahib proportions. Finally, Chairman Tom Connally called a halt to their work with a cracker-barrel dictum. "You can snap," rumbled Connally, "but you can't bulb...
Berliners noted that, despite high-level peace parleys, the local Russians were being their usual selves. But experts in Russian behavior professed to detect a slight softening around the edges...
...most of World War II in Nice. There, or on his Normandy estate, he still lives and works, "ensconced in his materialism," so his friend Andre Gide has said of him, "like a wild boar in its wallow." Now 68, he is busy on a new novel, which, as usual, he declines to discuss...
Once again, the varsity boat demonstrated such clear superiority over its rivals that it was never pressed. Bill Curwen negotiated the course at his usual unhurried 31 beat, despite the fact that MIT was making a desperate bid to stay in the running over the early part of the race...
...finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them.) It is the title story, far from her usual pattern, which makes "The Lottery" an exceptional book...