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...evidence, he produced an approving comment from Georgia's crusty, shrewd Carl Vinson, perennial watchdog of the armed services. Johnson quoted from a five-month-old Vinson speech: "There can be no doubt that Secretary Johnson deserves the commendation of the entire nation for having carried out so successfully the drive to squeeze fat out of public expenditures...
...Gladwyn's arrival as Britain's chief delegate to the U.N. (succeeding Sir Alexander Cadogan) coincided with the return of Russia's Jacob Malik. His polished delivery, his shrewd, easy wit, his telling replies to tedious Malik have made him a favorite of U.N. audiences. A typical TV-fan wire, from Chevy Chase (Md.), read: "You were magnificent in defense of all that is worthwhile in this world." Sir Gladwyn thinks such responses "extraordinary...
...with a love triangle in which Victor Mature, as a claims investigator, and local Insurance Agent Leif Erickson compete for the affections of Stella (Ann Sheridan), the family breadwinner, who is horrified by the schemes hatched by her ne'er-do-well relatives. As the kind of simple-shrewd, irresponsible character he plays best, Wayne is really the star of the movie, and he gets fine support from Frank Fontaine, who plays his dull-witted sidekick, and Evelyn Varden, his conscience-stricken mother...
Floodtide (Dial; $3) is Frank Yerby's mixture as before, a crude, shrewd combination of sex, violence, sadism, costuming and cliche. Yerby, a 33-year-old Negro writer who hit a $250,000 jackpot with his first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, knows just what his customers like and gives it to them in heroic doses: Hero Ross Pary isn't quality in his home town of Natchez, Miss., but he returns there in 1850 with an Oxford education, a face "as clean-cut as a medallion," eyes "somber and brooding" and "plaid trousers, clinging to his well...
Thanks mainly to bonus Pitchers Curt Simmons (15-7) and Robin Roberts (16-5), as well as spectacular relief pitching by Jim Konstanty (10-4), the Phillies have pushed ahead of their early season promise, when shrewd, hustling Manager Eddie Sawyer was insisting they were just a good bet for third (TIME...