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Classic example of a historic U. S. figure-the self-made man-is hulking, ruddy Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, whose big competent mechanic's hands work the president's controls of one of the half-dozen biggest U. S. corporations: General Motors Corp. Danish-born Bill Knudsen believes (with personal justification) that success's best recipe is competence and hard work, its most powerful attraction the prospect of good...
Pyrex ovenware, boilers, mimeograph machines. His car-body designs for the Marmon 16 in 1930 set a whole new style in automobile streamlining. Today, a consultant on everything from railroad coaches to pickle bottles, Walter Dorwin Teague is one of the half-dozen crack U. S. industrial designers. In his Clinton, N. J. farmhouse, Designer Teague gives himself a change of pace with early-American furniture...
...long fight with Montana's absentee owners, tempered by blows in & out of the Senate that would have long since destroyed anyone of lesser steel, polished by the saving grace of a swift mind that has dwelt long on the ironies of politics-Burt Wheeler has lived a half-dozen lives, every one at top speed, except for brief intervals of catnapping on his office couch. "Nearly everything, except perhaps dinner, seems less important after a nap," says Mr. Wheeler...
...Presidential pretender out to out-stump Tom Dewey and all the rest is the Surprise Party's nominee-Gracie Allen, witling half of the radio & cinema team of Burns & Allen. Unannounced to audiences, last week Gracie sashayed into a half-dozen other people's radio programs to air her politicocomic aims...
...mammals the pituitary, that master gland, secretes a half-dozen or so hormones (no one knows exactly how many) which control or influence growth, body heat, blood pressure, milk production, maternal behavior, etc. Sometimes the pituitary achieves its ends by stimulating other glands, such as the sex glands or thyroids, to produce hormones of their...