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...each of three top officials of the nation's anti-inflation program to define the word stabilize. Said Chief Stabilizer Roger Putnam: "To preserve the value of the dollar." Price Boss Ellis Arnall : "To keep in a stable position or relatively in equilibrium or balance." Wage Board Chairman Nathan Feinsinger, after a peek at the dictionary: "A substance added to an explosive to render-it less liable to spontaneous decomposition...
...Force has just as broad a base of major command talent. General Curtis LeMay, who built SAC into a powerful ready-force, has been moved to Washington as Vandenberg's vice chief of staff (TIME, March 10). Curt LeMay switched jobs with General Nathan Twining, who helped build up SAC's World War II predecessor, the B-29 Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific. Vandenberg is well anchored in Europe with Lieut. General Lauris Norstad, Eisenhower's air chief at SHAPE and commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; and in the Pacific with Lieut. General Otto...
...WORLD OF GEORGE JEAN NATHAN (389 pp.)-Edited by Charles Angoff-Knopf...
Critic George Jean Nathan was once told that an angry theatrical producer had called him a pinhead. "That is on the face of it absurd," retorted Nathan. " Tin-head' is a two-syllable word." The dean of U.S. drama critics has been nipping his lip at the American theater and the people in it for 46 seasons. He has outlasted the combined Broadway runs of Abie's Irish Rose, Tobacco Road and Oklahoma!-and in continuous performance. Plays have to ring down the curtain around 11 p.m.; Nathan never does...
Nobody knows exactly how much effect Nathan has had on the American theater, but no critic has had more. He found the theater swamped in hokum and sentimentality. Today even Nathan, a hard man to please, admits that it is a much better show. Nathan has backed his bid for high dramatic standards with wit, passion, and the integrity of a porcupine. Like Shaw, he has tickled his reader's funny bone while slipping him a cultural hotfoot...