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...fellow traveler, or a wool-brained sower of "weeds of jackassery," or an abysmally uncomprehending man, or an appeaser, or a warmonger who was taking the U.S. into a world war, to the warm if not so audible defense that he was a great Secretary of State, a brilliant executor of the best of all possible foreign programs. A lot of the charges that the State Department had housed party-liners and homosexuals had obviously stuck. But Acheson had the confidence of Administration Democrats and some support from neutral non-partisans-notably from a Republican ex-Secretary of State, Henry...
After holding the confusing scraps of paper for two years after Bartok's death, his executor handed them over to Bartok's close friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly, who had earlier spent four months of skull-cracking labor trying to decipher the piece. Serly later said: "No man ever had such a task in his life . . . In order to finish this work as Bartok would have finished it, I had to put myself in a dead man's mind." Serly completed the score for viola (after rejecting the notion of adapting it for the more popular...
...Vatican called the Czech threat of prosecution for treason "laughable nonsense." A Vatican spokesman asserted: "Excommunication has no need of a material executor who can be traced and punished. Excommunication acts upon the guilty in the secret of the conscience." On the other hand, Eastern Catholics who were terrorized into lip service to Communism would not incur the penalties of the papal edict. Priests, he added, were expected to do their duty regardless of personal consequences...
...succeed the late A. P. Giannini on the 25-member board of directors of his Bank of America, the directors last week picked slim, dark-eyed, olive-skinned Mrs. Claire Giannini Hoffman, 44, A.P.'s only daughter, longtime confidante and an executor of his $480,000 estate...
...Assistant and Under Secretary, Dean Acheson was always a highly competent explainer, advocate and executor of Administration policy. He acted as State's liaison man with Congress. He helped steer such complex and unwieldy vessels as Lend-Lease, UNRRA, the World Bank, the Export-Import Bank through diplomatic shoals. With David Lilienthal he wrote the plan for international control of atomic power which became the basis for U.S. policy...