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...selection of friendly, unassuming "Whit" Griswold, who favors quiet tweeds and drives his own maroon jeep station wagon, came as a surprise. New Haven scuttlebutt had been tossing around the name of Secretary of State Dean Acheson ('15) and others. President-Elect Griswold seemed as surprised as anybody. Said he: "It was so sudden I've had no time to make plans. My wife is bearing up bravely ... I feel fine...
...settlement of the Berlin blockade with Russia's Yakov Malik. In the pale-pink glow of hopefulness that followed, he served Acheson as alternate chief of delegation at the Paris four-power conference, proved to himself once again that the Russians had altered their basic strategy not one whit...
...changing of place at a hundred miles an hour . . . will make us one whit stronger, happier or wiser...
...Superman's astounding antics, McClure Newspaper Syndicate and National Comics Publications thought that readers might be getting bored with their comic-strip hero's invulnerability. Last week the syndicators decided to put Superman in a position where he may lose an occasional round. In November, Writer Whit Ellsworth and Artist Wayne Boring will marry him off to his longtime sweetheart, Lois Lane. In the normal course of time ("even Superman can't hurry some things") Lois will present him with a Superbaby. The new challenge: "Can Superman cope with modern man's most intimate problem-namely...
...more typical of the 220 artists represented were two local landscapists whose work changes not a whit from year to year: Dean Fausett (TIME, Aug. 22) and Luigi Lucioni. Their crisp, slick pictures of red barns, cows, birches and green pastures were echoed with varying success from wall to wall, making an exhibition steeped in milk and spinach, the way the customers liked it. (The exhibiting artists sold $10,000 worth of pictures at last year's show, might do as well this time...