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...Culbert Olson, running far behind on the Democratic ticket, was soundly trounced by bustling Republican Attorney General Earl Warren. Although there was hardly a crackpot candidate or crackpot issue in the campaign, it was still one of the nation's liveliest. Comely Actress Helen Gahagan, Democratic National Committeewoman, shouted herself hoarse for Olson. Gregarious Actor Leo Carrillo, descendant of California's first provisional Governor, added gags to humorless Earl Warren's meetings. Typical Carrillo quip: introducing Warren to "my cousins" in the audience...
...carping crackpot made this shattering statement last week, but a man who ought to know. It came, in fact, from the head of WPB's Conservation & Substitution Division, mild, white-thatched Harvey A. Anderson. Before he came to Washington he was the ace waste eliminator for American Telephone & Telegraph; now he is a thorn in the side of Army & Navy. Last week, with his big boss Don Nelson engaged in his own grapple with the services over scarce materials, Harvey Anderson was mad enough to blow...
...picked from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, heard the Chennault doctrine endlessly in the training weeks before they first took the air against the Jap in December. Chennault lectured them at blackboards, took them aloft to show them what he wanted: not individual heroes, but everlasting teamwork; no crackpot do-or-die attacks, but slashing, concentrated assaults that would blast the enemy...
...pounds of it in his car, right outside the building. But his pilot plant back home, worse luck, had just been smashed by robbers and couldn't be inspected by government experts just then. For Coordinator Newhall the amateur rubber-makers pose a problem: among many crackpot processes, is there one he dare not miss? To date at least 20 ideas have been considered worth investigation. Nothing new has turned up. There are half a dozen ways to make rubber-about 50, if impracticable processes are included. More than 1,000 plants are known to contain latex, from guayule...
...education, it will find that maintaining its existence is an even tougher job than it is today. A rapid glance at Mr. Morse's amusing "Pardon My Harvard Accent" might indicate that all the University has to do is to look around for crackpot ways its money is being spent, cut them out, and save millions each year. Unfortunately, although there are many frills in the environs of the Yard, most either are uncuttable because of endowment bequests or are assets too desirable to be reduced. People who leave money to Harvard usually tie it up for definite ends, such...