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Unequivocal Endorsements. Berle, as he later explained, decided that the Chambers evidence was pretty thin. In 1941 he checked on the Hiss brothers by inquiring of their friend Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson and their old mentor Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Both of them, Berle said, gave the Hisses their unequivocal endorsements. Acheson was to testify that his endorsement had only covered Donald Hiss, who was his executive assistant; but he added that Alger Hiss and he were "friends and remain friends...
...these ingredients, and probably others, will be arranged advantageously around the uranium, which will act as a detonator. The hydrogen isotopes are thin gases and hard to package, so they will probably be used in the form of chemical compounds. Lithium hydride, which may combine two desirable ingredients (lithium and tritium) in a single compound, would be handy for this purpose. Other tricks will be used to pack more hydrogen isotopes closely around the uranium...
...ones being made across the Channel at Aubusson (TIME. March 8,1948). Among the fine few, Sutherland's gawky Birds were abstract enough to look all right in wool. Stanley Spencer's cabbage-laden Gardener was both earthy and pretty, but The Garden of Fools., a soup-thin parody of medieval tapestry design by Surrealist Cecil Collins, was neither. "The fool," explained Collins brightly, "is the symbol of creative innocence embattled with the modern machine . . . The saint, the artist, the poet and the fool are one; they are the eternal virginity of spirit . . ." It seemed a woolly explanation...
...prettily painted landscapes and well-sung songs give it rather the graceful air of a masque. The quickly shifting scenes at the start give it movement. But once it enters the Forest of Arden, where the scenery stays put and the story refuses to, the charm wears ever more thin. All the world loves a lover, but not everybody loves eight in one play-particularly when they include Audrey and Touchstone and Phebe and Silvius with their prattle, their puns and their depressing high spirits...
...that, almost alone among contemporary authors, he works in the tradition of Henry Fielding and the old English novel. With The Horse's Mouth, which completes a trilogy, more U.S readers are due to discover the unexpectedness of Gary's mutton pie in an age of literary thin...