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...best gag in this London film is one not entirely in context: a servant lastly striking the brass gong is told "Take it easy. You're not introducing a picture, you know...
...Health for five years, became Minister of Labor, in charge of mobilization of manpower. He replaced bumbling George Isaacs, who was shifted to the Ministry of Pensions, with a $5,600 salary cut and loss of cabinet rank. Former Minister of Pensions Hilary Marquand, a little-known, dependable public servant and former economics professor, took over Bevan's Health Ministry. Housing, which had been under the Health Minister's jurisdiction, was shifted to Hugh Dalton, who became Minister of Local Government and Planning...
Died. William Henry McReynolds, 70, "No. 1 civil servant"; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington, D.C. McReynolds went to work in Washington in 1906, won a reputation for knowing all the ins & outs of capital red tape, became, as an administrative assistant (1939-45), an expert expediter for Franklin Roosevelt...
...Dewey-was so honest that he had contracted a vast debt of honor and had kept himself poverty-stricken for years paying it off. The intimation was plain: Dewey had not offered Hanley a political bribe to surrender the nomination; he had simply been rewarding an upstanding public servant for good works. Nevertheless, Senate investigators called on Old Joe just before the election to quiz him about the whole affair...
...Knees. In two awful hours of rasping vituperation at Lake Success, Mao's proxy, an unknown general named Wu Hsiu-chuan, had torn away all (or almost all) of the free world's illusions about Mao and Chinese Communism. The Mao presented there by his scar-faced servant Wu was none of the men painted by the soft China hands of American "liberalism...