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Reuther's obvious urge to power and his lack of personal warmth sometimes worry his admirers, one of whom has remarked nervously on the U.A.W. president's resemblance to the stereotype titan of industry. Like many a business tycoon, he displays a single-minded devotion to work, which often keeps him away from his wife and two daughters for days at a time. No sooner had he won full dominance over the U.A.W. in 1947, than the nonsmoking, nondrinking Reuther spelled out the new order to his associates. "Now," said he, "there'll be no more...
...recession or met grave setbacks in foreign affairs. The Democratic Party in the 1952 convention and in the campaign displayed great vitality: a hard-hitting variety of oratorical range from Truman to Barkley to Stevenson; a press which, while outnumbered by the Republican papers, is aggressive and devoted; a warmth and color that runs through the intermediate leadership; and the loyalty of most intellectuals, the famous eggheads, who are very useful allies since they write the books, are heard on the airwaves and educate the nation's youth...
Ralph Sutton at the Piano (Circle LP). An inventive young (29) white man who lost his heart to ragtime, Sutton catches a lot of the bounce-and a lot of the warmth-of the great Negro jazzmen. His repertory is authentic: Drop Me Off in Harlem, I'm Coming Virginia, Love Me or Leave...
...Some of her fans think Jo's singing has got "warmer" since her marriage early this year. Her explanation is less romantic: she wanted her voice to sound "rounder, fuller, deeper" and she spent years "polishing it like wood." Now she can sing two notes lower, suspects the "warmth" that people feel is just a deeper tone...
...bumbling, Mr. Chips style, Donat plays the idealistic inventor with a good deal of warmth and wit. Best sequence: Friese-Greene excitedly demonstrating his newly perfected magic box by projecting flickering Hyde Park scenes in his laboratory in the dead of night to an audience of one: a stolid, bewildered London bobby, pungently played by Laurence Olivier...