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When World War II began, management of the German coal industry was given to big, blond, blue-eyed Paul Walter, onetime lieutenant of Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley. With the title of the Reich's Coal Kommissar, Herr Walter descended on the producers and retailers, organized them into State-operated syndicates, controlled coal from the mine to the consumer. It was not a successful arrangement. Producers resented State intrusion, labor kicked, consumers got more red tape than coal. Last winter while Berliners were shivering in their apartments, coal was sprinkled on the streets of other cities to prevent...
Leopold Stokowski, the platinum-blond maestro of Philadelphia and Hollywood, has lately been experimenting with Army bands. His conclusions (to abolish the clarinet, to send bands playing into modern battle aboard tanks and trucks) last week came in for criticism in Congress. Said Ohio's Representative George H. Bender: "Picture the possibilities. As the tank dips into a sharp and unexpected hollow, the cries of anguish from the perturbed saxophone players would probably frighten the enemy to a quick and decisive retreat, unless the soldiers themselves would first throw up their guns in anguish to shut their ears. Having...
Died. William Read Randolph, 20, tall, blond sophomore at St. Mary's University (Texas), son of the late Captain William M. Randolph for whom U. S. Army Randolph Field was named; of injuries received when the plane he was piloting on a St. Mary's Flying Club breakfast flight crashed in heavy mist at Boerne...
...blond, store-clerkish, 34-year-old Phil Dike, son of a California real-estate promoter, started his art career by imitating his grandmother, who used to paint reproductions of picture postcards. At 21, he won a medal in a local watercolor exhibition, shipped off to Manhattan, where he studied with oldtime U. S. Realist George Luks. After a spell in Paris and Italy, mostly sitting in cafés and talking, Dike returned to Southern California, settled down to teaching...
...parsons visit lots of schools every year, reasoned Rector Price, but few youngsters get personal calls from their home-town parson. When his young people were home at Christmas, he asked if they would like such a pastoral visit. They all thought it would be fine. So last week blond, energetic, 38-year-old Rector Price set out in his shiny new Dodge to visit his scattered academic flock...