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...addition to his other qualifications, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission must abandon all his business connections, get along on a comparatively unrewarding $15,000 a year, and be ready at all times to suffer the slings and arrows of Capitol Hill. From a list of 30 candidates, President Truman last week extracted one willing to take the consequences...
...Soviet government . . . will not abandon further efforts directed toward insuring peace, and is ready to be an active participant in all honest plans, measures and activities to avert...
With his swooping fancies and suave violence, Bemelmans at his best does not so much abandon reality as transcend it. But what Bemelmans can evoke in a paragraph, Adapter Ryan scarcely suggests in a whole production number. As gaudy extravaganza, the show is sometimes fair fun, and Fredric March and Florence Eldridge squeeze some good burlesque moments out of their roles. But there is not much human warmth to the laughter, and there are none of the suddenly touching moments there should be. Miss Ryan's orchestration all but drowns out Mr. Bemelmans' music...
Class Day is the seniors' own personal farewell to the College. Consequently, it usually has a quality of calculated abandon, though since the Twenties, veterans say, Class Days have been of an emasculated sort...
Wallace asked the party to abandon its "narrow range of support" and become "a broader forward-looking party." It could not tolerate "any organized factions or groups" within it. "Our principles are vastly different from those of the Communist Party," he said. ". . . We believe in progressive capitalism, not socialism...