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...quiet, courtly Virginian of deep religious faith and independent character, the cloud was a vindication of a rather lonely fight-a vindication he was the last to want. When he heard the news about the Russian explosion of a "thermonuclear device," Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 57, new chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, informed the other four AECommissioners, and then started working day & night to speed the U.S.'s own thermonuclear bomb production program. Not much was said, but AEC was keenly aware of two fateful facts of U.S. history: 1) had it not been for Lewis Strauss...
Into the Field. The man behind Operation Snoop is Commissioner of Internal Revenue T. (for Thomas) Coleman Andrews, 54, a self-styled "Byrd Democrat." Andrews is a jovial, distinguished-looking Virginian with a fine command of Elizabethan English and an enthusiasm for rod & gun. He inherited an IRS which was left a shambles by the tax scandals of the Truman Administration. In seven months he has rejuvenated morale and rebuilt his staff with complete disdain for political recommendations. Principal reorganization: cutting the number of IRS regional offices from 17 to nine, at the same time transferring large chunks of responsibility...
...American army. Delegate John Hancock nursed improbable dreams of military glory for himself, but Massachusetts, which had started the war, dared not suggest one of its own for high command lest the rest of the colonies touchily let Massachusetts try to finish the war, too. Washington was a Virginian, and thus politically eligible; he had commanded troops, and furthermore he looked like a general...
...look to for leadership at North American itself is Board Chairman James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, 58, a beefy (6 ft., 194 Ibs.), salty-tongued West Virginian whose fringe of white hair and twinkling blue eyes make him look like a modern-day Friar Tuck. Kindel-berger, who learned to fly in World War I. has devoted his life to turning out better and faster planes...
...idea for the demonstration came from the musings of Conductor-Composer Richard Bales, a Virginian himself, who has long regretted that so much music associated with the Confederacy - Dixie excepted-has fallen out of memory. From libraries, and with the help of friends, Bales resurrected some 125 old Southern songs, all piano versions. Weeding through them, he selected ten solidly representative tunes, orchestrated them for sighing fiddles and haunting horns, and strung them together in a cantata which he called The Confederacy. The première brought out the rebels of the Washington area in full force...