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...Shrewd and practical men, selected for their devotion to the cause of Europe, Inc., they were the first to admit that the squalls of doubt and suspicion that lay behind the Community were as nothing to the storms that lay ahead. Before the High Authority can come to grips with miners and steelmen, it must...
...C.I.O. offensive at the Democratic Convention. Less skillful hands than his were on that helm. When Alben Barkley publicly blamed labor for his withdrawal, it was the worst black eye the unions had received at the hands of a top Democrat in many a year. The A.F.L.'s shrewd Dave Dubinsky, who had not attended labor's famous breakfast with Barkley, laughed at the discomfiture of the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, Who had been a leader of the stop-Barkley movement. The embarrassment caused by the Barkley statement may have contributed to Truman's determination...
...Descamisados. Only nine years ago, Eva Duarte was just a beguiling girl from a modest home in the pampas, trying to make her way in movie bit parts and radio soap operas. Her assets -a trim, 5-ft.-5-in. figure, a coldly sexy manner and a shrewd if untutored brain -made her popular at parties. At one of them she met Colonel Juan Perón, then a comer in the Ministry of War. That very night they slipped off to a seaside resort; soon they were occupying next-door apartments...
Died. Senator Brien McMahon, 48, congressional watchdog of the atomic energy program, who received 16 first ballot votes at the Democratic Convention as Connecticut's favorite son candidate for the presidency; of cancer; in Washington. A Yale Law School graduate (1927) and a protege of Connecticut's shrewd old Boss Homer Cummings, 88, he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney General when he was 33, was first elected to the Senate in 1944. After the atom bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, he crusaded successfully for civilian control of the atomic energy program (now headed by his onetime law partner...
This cheerful excuse for a plot is taken seriously by neither Sholom Aleichem nor his characters. What matters is the vivid parade of penniless producers, starving actors, shrewd sharpers and keen-witted kibitzers who rollick through the book. This volatile world often seems like something out of the merrier parts of Dickens: a director with three wives, a sentimental actress always in search of a husband, and harmless scoundrels who are never happier than when plotting to steal each other's prima donnas...