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Wilbert Winkle, having demonstrated budding heroism by breaking out of his bank cage and starting a fix-it shop in his garage, can be counted on by experienced movie-goers to bloom properly when transplanted from Benton, Calif, to the South Pacific. He does, by wiping out a machine-gun nest with a bulldozer, and comes home a hero even to his wife. Mr. Winkle has its moving moments, but the total effect is about as convincing as if professional tough guy Edward G. Robinson were to play the part of the mild little bank clerk-which he does...
...Benton Harbor, Mich...
Chester Bowles, the Senate Banking and Currency Committee found out last week, did not spend 14 years as a high-powered Manhattan advertising man (Benton and Bowles) for nothing. Neat, decorous and urbane (in vivid contrast to his pudgy, rumpled, truculent predecessor, Leon Henderson), the OPAdministrator appeared before the Committeee to begin the fight for renewal of the Emergency Price Control and Stabilization Act under which the OPA operates. (The Act will expire June 30.) His "presentation" was Benton and Bowles at its most persuasive...
...Partner William Benton is now making persuasive presentations for the University of Chicago, its Encyclopedia Britannica, its radio Round Table, and for the Committee for Economic Development
...announced the election to a University Vice-Presidency of Wilbur Cheney Munnecke, who for four years has held a similar title at the Marshall Field department store. Munnecke will coordinate University business affairs. Vice President Emery Thomas Filbey will continue as chief educational coordinator and Vice President William Burnett Benton (formerly of Manhattan's Benton & Bowles advertising, firm) will run such sidelines as the University's Encyclopaedia Britannica (TIME, May 24), its film unit which is now working out plans for rapid expansion, its radio Round Table. > Hutchins inspired the students' Daily Maroon to offer...