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Through Washington and world politics last week, Dean Acheson gracefully picked his way, reminding a British journalist of a Velasquez grandee-tall and thin, quietly and elegantly garbed, in appearance, at least, the perfect diplomat. Despite seven years of Government service, many more years as an attorney with one of the nation's great law firms, he was still something of an enigma, even to his friends. Who was Dean Gooderham Acheson...
...typist for the American Military Government, who had tired of American men. When she appeared at the little cafe for her first meeting with the "well-situated and sophisticated" young man whose answer she had selected, she proved to be neither handsome nor vivacious nor blonde. She was thin, tired, brunette and nervous. But the young man was nervous too. Neither well-situated nor particularly sophisticated, he had just returned from five years in a Russian P.W. camp, had landed a lowly clerical...
...more ambitious essay in shadow and substance. The black and tan model and black and grey artist-who, unlike clean-shaven, square-cut Braque, sported a spade beard and cheroot-both wavered in uncertain silhouette against the grey and yellow wallpaper. At one moment the figures seemed thin as cardboard; at another they became block-solid...
Normally, sterile bulls are sold as low-grade beef. But Rupert was an exceptional case. Wayne Fox of Des Moines heard about Rupert's problem, and offered his good offices. Fox and his wife took over, and put Rupert on a diet to" thin him down to 1,200 Ibs. They had a theory that he was so "overfitted" that his sexual hormones were lost...
Despite a few mild laughs, the gag stretches thin during the 90 minutes it takes to get the harried honeymooners to bed. Whatever novelty the script suggests in turning a wedding trip into a family excursion is lost in the exhausted atmosphere of marital misunderstanding and reconciliation...