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...Appointed Assistant Secretary of State Nelson A. Rockefeller's great & good friend Wallace Kirkman Harrison, 49, as the $10,000-a-year Director of Inter-American Affairs. No career diplomat, Appointee Harrison is a Manhattan architect, co-designer of Rockefeller Center and the New York World's Fair Trylon & Perisphere...
When World War I seemed lost, it was the "Welsh wizard" with the glib tongue and unwavering eye who patched up Britain's faith in victory. He smoothly talked the reluctant British High Command into accepting the leadership of "simple, honorable, absolutely fearless" Marshal Foch. An architect of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations (both of which he was accused of bungling), he lived to see both curl up in the flames of World...
...Uncle to Architect. At the peak of his popularity, in November 1943, Churchill suddenly switched Woolton to a newer, much tougher assignment-the unpalatable duty of persuading regulation-weary Britons that control must continue into their peacetime lives as well...
...Ministry of Reconstruction had been created to put Britain's postwar plans on paper, to coordinate the knotty problem of providing "food, work and homes." The first incumbent would have to be an architect in ideas-and a nonparty man, since no one knew what party would execute his program. For a soup-tasting, handshaking "kind uncle" like Woolton, this was a long leap into the unknown. Reluctantly, and only on Churchill's insistence, he accepted...
BREAKFAST AT THE HERMITAGE-Alfred Leland Crabb-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.75). In a sentimental novel of post-Civil War Tennessee, Professor Crabb tells how a poor boy became an architect while the Ladies Hermitage Association fought to restore "Old Hickory's" home...