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...from grandfather's roll top. But it was a desk, all right. There was even space where a man could do some work. But Gunn Furniture Co.'s desk-of-tomorrow (improved version) had other virtues; and visitors to the eighth annual office-equipment display in Chicago last week rightfully gaped at them...
Queen Elizabeth in the black silk robes of a barrister (she rated them as an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple) looked moderately Portia-like, completely queenly, in a portrait by James Gunn. She gazed with perfect aplomb at visitors to the Royal Academy's summer show in London; later, barristers would gaze back at her, permanently on a Middle Temple wall...
...Colonel Thomas F. Gunn, the Army's rest area expert, the G.I. Heaven is staffed with officers ready to do anything to make the soldier happy: they have even arranged weddings. G.I.s are charged a nominal 100 francs ($2) on arrival. Outside U.S.R.R.A. a black-market dinner might cost 1,500 francs; but on Heaven's reservation, the customers get a millionaire's vacation for peanuts...
Other appointments include Robert DuBois'48 as Technical Director, replacing Hartford Gunn '48, and Theodore Lee Rowland '48 as Popular Music Director...
...Elliott's place, the Beaver appointed grey Herbert S. Gunn, who signalized the end of leftist tomfoolery with his first memo to the Standard staff: "The chief function of an evening newspaper is to TELL THE NEWS." But the Standard still had one rugged warrior to keep its tattered leftist ensigns flying: famed, impish Cartoonist David (Colonel Blimp) Low, who is not above caricaturing his own boss...