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...businessmen who went to Washington-George Humphrey, Charles E. Wilson, Robert T. Stevens, et al.-proved that many of the methods of private industry could be used with great profit in Government, notably in eliminating waste. Before they were through, they chopped $13 billion from the 1953-54 Truman budget, cut the federal payroll...
...senior partner of ihe 104-year-old Wall Street firm of Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (95 lawyers). John W. Davis represents A.T.&T., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, International Paper Co., et al. He did not need another client, and he already owned a tea service. Davis took the segregation case partly because an old friend, South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes, asked him to, partly as a matter of constitutional (states' rights) and social conviction ("Race is a fact, like sex"). Some of his other friends were sorry to hear...
Answer to Stalin. This week, after the ceremonies in Santa Maria Maggiore, the Pope appeared on the balcony of the church before the great crowd, and stretching out his arms, he spoke his blessing urbi et orbi-to the city and to the world. It was more than a traditional phrase. Pius XII is part of his city, as he is part of his Church. But he has also shown for all the world a deep feeling that is above its theological and political dividing lines...
...housing industry did get a new program that it hoped would keep building going close to its present pace of 1,000,000 housing units a year. At the same time, it appeared to satisfy all the other housing interests represented on the committee-unions, bankers, public-housing advocates, et al. Since it is virtually axiomatic that no two groups in the building industry agree on anything, the outcome of the committee's work was a tribute to its chairman, Federal Housing Chief Albert Cole...
...fuming at the "grandiloquent hysteria" of the Wagnerian heroes-and calling his predecessor "a beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn"-Debussy, singlehanded, set about creating a new anti-Wagnerian style. The result was the only opera he ever finished, Pelléas et Mélisande. Based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, it had a shadowy, once-upon-a-time plot that actually bore a genteel resemblance to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde...