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OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN (339 pp.)-Evelyn Waugh-Little, Brown...
...President Eisenhower's direction, Assistant Secretary of State Samuel Waugh, a Nebraska banker, signed the OTC agreement for the U.S. last March. Though legally it was probably unnecessary for Eisenhower to submit OTC to Congress, he did it, as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said, as a matter of courtesy. Moreover, the President knew that congressional blessing for OTC would have a psychological effect throughout the world, i.e., it would prove that not only the U.S. President but the U.S. Congress wanted a permanent policy of free world trade. When he sent OTC to Congress last April. Eisenhower...
...Geneva for the opening session on revision of GATT (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), Assistant Secretary of State Samuel C. Waugh read a letter from President Eisenhower in which Ike said that he "looks forward to early action" in the next Congress on his international trade program...
Connolly operated on a single ground rule, "the pursuit of quality." He pursued and printed such first-rate writers as T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Arthur Koestler, Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden. Even in wartime, Connolly kept Horizon's standards up and its voice down, made the magazine a kind of semiprecious touchstone of the arts. Earnest literati in England and the U.S. used it to deck their coffee tables and to restock their mental shelves. In The Golden Horizon, Connolly picks a scant 600 pages to represent the original 10,000. The result suggests that Horizon often...
Humpherys and Waugh agreed that the volume of business has risen greatly. Both were also sure that the price war would end soon...