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Then the committee summoned Major General Bennett Meyers, wartime deputy chief of procurement, who retired in 1945. A burly, balding man with a bristle-brush mustache, Meyers had had his troubles. After a trip to North Africa (where Elliott Roosevelt's photo-reconnaissance squadron was stationed), Assistant Secretary of War for Air Lovett called him up and demanded: "For God's sake, Benny, don't we have a photo-reconnaissance plane?" Then Harry Hopkins called him to the White House, said that it was an outrage, and why didn't he get busy...
...Howard Fuller, 34, plump president of the joke-haunted Fuller Brush Co., was also coming right along. To impersonate him in a Red Skelton comedy, The Fuller Brush Man, Columbia Pictures asked for-and got-A. Howard Fuller...
Actually the large picture cartoons of such Stadium notables as Chip Gannon, Vince Moravec, and Chet Pierce and a dozen others, who currently grimace out over neckties and drawers were the inspiration of Haskian and the gifted brush of one Mal Stevens of Somerville...
...women and children and bullocks and groaning carts were plodding eastward and westward beneath the autumn skies and nights of the cloven Punjab; past unharvested fields, past empty villages and eviscerated villages and villages which resemble rained-out brush fires. Huge, forlorn concentrations of Sikhs and Hindus labored forward to leave the West Punjab forever. On one day last week, columns No. 8 and 9 moved across the famous Balloki headworks between Amritsar and Lahore and passed into the Indian Dominion; not far behind, foot columns No. 10, 11 and 12 lumbered steadfastly eastward. Carefully feeling its way around Amritsar...
Since the Varsity has still not recovered completely from its brush with Holy Cross' pachyderms Saturday, yesterday's practice emphasized ball handling and dummy scrimmage instead of heavy contact work...