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...President went looking for a man who could handle the situation, and he found the man at his elbow. Captain Meriwether Lewis, Jefferson's lifelong friend and private secretary, was a Virginian who at 29 combined impressive military and diplomatic experience with a lively intellect, immense stamina and wide knowledge of the frontier. Go west, young man, said Jefferson-and westward Lewis went...
Instant Inventions. Lewis proved his prowess even in his preparations for the expedition. For his second-in-command he picked his friend Lieut. William Clark, 33, a fellow Virginian and a born leader; with characteristic generosity, Lewis made Clark joint leader of the expedition. To meet the special requirements of the journey, Lewis invented a collapsible canoe, a powdered soup and a sturdy lightweight rifle that was promptly adopted by the army for all infantrymen. The expedition's armament was so awesome that during the entire trip no Indian nation dared risk battle with Lewis' main force...
...what we need--not now anyway. The Brattle could come up with a totally mindless festival without half trying. Cowboy films say. Gunfight at the OK Corral, Shane, Broken Arrow, the Virginian. A flash of gunfire and the mind is soothed. Or navy films, consciousness corroded by a film of brine. The Caine Mutiny, Run Silent, Run Deep, even Captain Horatio Hornblower...
Suited Skyscraper.The product is film, and MCA's Universal TV has more shows in network prime time-nine hours in all-than any other producer. The Munsters, The Bob Hope Chrysler Theater, and The Virginian are all in the top 20. NBC will on Jan. 30 add another MCA show called Big Three Golf, a weekly continuing match between Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player. MCA also presents Jack Benny, Alfred Hitchcock, Wagon Train, The Kraft Suspense Theater, Broadside, 90 Bristol Court and McHale's Navy. At least 22 TV programs are now being shot...
...first woman invited to address the A.B.A. assembly: the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, first (1958) woman to sit in Britain's House of Lords. This year's outgoing president, Arizonan Walter E. Craig, is a federal judge-select who stoutly defends the Supreme Court. His successor is Virginian Lewis F. Powell Jr., the moderate former chairman of the Richmond school board, who quietly desegregated that city's schools in 1959. Powell's exemplary platform: Speed up A.B.A. efforts to strengthen professional ethics, equalize criminal justice and defend the indigent...