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Scott McLeod, the State Department's chief of security, is a man of action. When Secretary of State John Foster Dulles asked his lieutenants to "act as forceful salesmen" in collecting contributions for the Washington Community Chest, Salesman McLeod reacted with characteristic forcefulness. Last week orders went down to the 1.142 employees of his Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs that everyone must either make a voluntary contribution to the chest or explain personally to McLeod. The word soon reached the Community Chest's Director Edward J. Keyes, who reacted with shocked surprise. He deplored McLeod...
...they entered was empty, but the voice, which seemed to be coming from the bathroom, gave them further directions: "In here." Proceeding solemnly into the bathroom, the two diplomats found Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stretched out full-length in a warm tub, his arms folded upon his chest in an attitude suggestive of the funeral effigy of Henry III in Westminster Abbey. Brushing aside his subordinates' apologies, Dulles dealt with their problem in matter-of-fact fashion, then relapsed into his yogi-like trance for a few minutes' more rest before getting out to dress...
...finds that her potentate has gone back to the Punjab, Ava companionably moves in with Gable, only to have her idyl interrupted by the arrival of a British anthropologist (Donald Sinden) and his aristocratic, susceptible wife (Grace Kelly). On safari, the camera keeps one travelogue eye on natives, chest-thumping gorillas and the lush African landscape, but concentrates mainly on a heavy-breathing triangle involving Ava, Gable and Grace. After 116 minutes, the characters are sorted out again so that Ava gets Gable and Actress Kelly, chastened and repentant, goes back to her simple-minded husband...
...TIME'S quizmasters know that a good question is one that is neither hard nor easy but that makes reader and friends want to look up the answer. Their book does just that . . . It is as pleasant as opening up a boyhood drawer in an old family chest to come across such joggers ... as these: the depression phrase, 'We'll let you know if anything turns up'; the Chicago newspaper ad, 'Bullet holes rewoven perfectly' . . . and the Japanese battle cry, 'Go to hell, Babe Ruth-American, you die.' " Simon & Schuster, old hands...
...office. He spends much of his time seeing the company's big team of "bright young men" and visiting his 35 U.S. plants. One of the most public-spirited businessmen in the U.S., McElroy devotes up to a third of his time to such functions as Community Chest, Cincinnati's Citizens Development Committee and the National Citizens Commission for Public Schools. He doesn't keep up with all his own soap operas (there are too many), listens in only when driving his car. He seldom brings work home with him, spends plenty of time with his handsome...