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...convinced that through another four years in the White House he could make a contribution to peace peculiarly his own, then Geneva produced new factors which, far more than theoretical arguments, could be decisive. After the hardest days of the Big Four discussions, Mr. Eisenhower appeared more full of zest, more rested, more tranquil than I have seen him in many months. Why? Because he was doing the thing on which, above all else, his heart and mind are set: to try to set the world on the pathway to better peace and to build an unpassable roadblock in front...
...Family. In his zest, his super-salesmanship, his devotion to beer, Gussie Busch follows in the well-marked footsteps of his beer-baron ancestors. The brewery is still controlled by the founding families. Together with St. Louis' Anheuser family, the Busch clan owns 65% of Anheuser-Busch's 4,816,218 outstanding shares; Gussie himself owns 22%, worth some $20 million, and is paid a salary of $150,000 a year. Eberhard Anheuser, the 74-year-old grandson of one of the founders, is chairman of the board, but Gussie, grandson of the other founder...
André Siegfried, who in 1927 wrote an elegantly incisive book about the U.S. entitled America Comes of Age, has revised his famous but outmoded theme to match midcentury headlines. With his Gallic zest for the provocative generalization unfettered by footnotes, the sprightly old (80) professor now says that Europe's giant "daughter" is moving away from parental traditions so fast that the old folks may soon have trouble recognizing their offspring as their...
Cardboard Jungle. Luis Sagi-Vela, the producer, played the fine old Ezio Pinza role of Emile de Becque with rakish zest (in rust-red plantation suit, blue-and-white-striped shirt, solid beige tie). And Mary Martin's sawed-off dungarees were curvaceously filled by Actress Marta Santa-Olalla. Although she sported the short-clipped Martin hairdo, she lacked something of the girl-next-door appeal...
...atom-bomb project. Many honors came to Fermi, but they did not make him less be-oved by his colleagues and students. His ife after the squash-court event was omething of an anticlimax (it could not lave been otherwise), but it was happy and productive. He had a zest for life (skiing, swimming, mountain climbing) as ell as for knowledge...