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Innovator. Since February, when he was asked to serve as an adviser to Land, Douglas has been butting his head against walls, aching for authority. Arizona-born, 47-year-old Lew Douglas admits that the only ships he knows very much about are prairie schooners. But he is versatile. He had never been in the Army before, but as an artillery lieutenant he won a citation from General Pershing during World War I. He had never been a Federal budget director before he went in for Franklin Roosevelt-then broke with him when the President paid no attention to balancing...
Pronounced overweight at the first examination, he shed 36 lb. in a month, got down to 200. Newly-commissioned Major Alvin York began thinking of running for Congress. Lew Ayres, reclassified to 1-A-O (noncombatant work), left the conscientious objectors' camp at Wyeth, Ore., to report for duty with an Army Medical Corps unit. This work, said he, was "just what I've always wanted to do." He emphasized that his c.o. ideas remained unchanged...
...Davis and Lew Bohn of the second Freshmen were then moved into bow and four of the third Varsity, which automatically became the Combination crew, which races a similar Yale crew in the opening event of the Derby festivities. The Combies now line up with Davis, bow; George Nichols, 2; Winsor Soule, 3; Bohn, 4; Jim Donald, 5; Dick Ober, 6; Sohier, 7; Seligam, stroke; and Jimmy Ducey, coxswain...
Died. Joseph M. (for Maurice) Weber, 74, the short, barrel-bellied butt of the old Weber & Fields knockabout comedy team; in Los Angeles. For more than half a century gangling, goat-bearded Lew Fields shook and belabored goat-bearded little Joe Weber for his ignorance and insults, joined him in mangling the English language ("I am delightfullness to meet you"), shared with him the glory and profits of being the most popular low-comedy team in theater history. Products of Manhattan's lower East Side, the two grew up together, formed their own road company at 18. Lew Fields...
...allowances, discounts, etc., not only for OPA itself but for carping customers. This is an expensive nuisance to large retailers. But to the hundreds of thousands of small grocers, general merchants, etc., who keep records in an aboriginal way if at all, the clerical problem is almost hopeless. Lew Hahn thought that a lot of small fry would be put out of business if the recording provisions were strictly enforced...