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...mutual willingness to talk; the U.S. emphasized the qualifications. Britain's answer, phrased with the terse and straightforward authority of Macmillan's personal voice, overnight united all British parties behind the government and gave it such a popular boost that some gloating Tories began talking of a snap national election to cash in ("We are riding the crest of the wave"). But Macmillan, who can resist popular outcries if he thinks them wrong (as in his refusal to suspend nuclear tests), showed not the slightest sign of approaching the summit defensively...
...Indispensability. The museum that Butler runs concentrates solely on American art; thanks largely to the $1,500,000 endowment of Founder Butler, it got in early on collecting U.S. paintings. Grandfather Butler spent 40 years tracking down his favorite painting for the collection: Winslow Homer's Snap the Whip (TIME, Aug. 23, 1954). The Butler Institute today has 635 oils, 500 prints, 365 watercolors and drawings, including top works by John Singleton Copley, James Peale, William Harnett, Thomas Eakins and Albert Ryder-far more than enough to fill the two-story museum's nine galleries...
Excusable Blunder. Oscar won his point. Caving in under the flood of mail, KCOP took him back. When other sponsors offered to snap up the time Philco had vacated, Philco itself gave up and reinstated Oscar...
Noisy Stampede. If color sets could instantly be made much cheaper (they cannot be until genuine mass production is warranted), the public would doubtless snap them up without waiting for more color programs. If substantially more color shows were beamed at home screens (only NBC plans to do so this year), many more buyers would probably surrender to the present high prices. But advertisers will not invest up to 20% more money for color production until they can count on a bigger audience...
Audiences as well as performers were finally called to order by the batons of great conductors-Sir Thomas Beecham, Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner. Sir Thomas, who began conducting at Covent Garden in 1910, often whirled on the audience to snap: "Shut up!" Once, in a glow of satisfaction, he turned and said: "Not so bad for England...