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...reason why NDAC has been able to thread a decisive way through Washington mazes is that its guide (and secretary) is a veteran civil servant named William Henry McReynolds. Reputed to know more about the ins & outs of the vastly proliferated Government structure than any man in Washington, leisurely "Mac" McReynolds is as deadly accurate as George Marshall would like his officers to be. Scottish and canny, he has worked in every department of the Government as payroll employe or efficiency expert since he left his law office in Battle Creek 34 years ago. For Herbert Hoover he helped draw...
When NDAC burst into being, it was McReynolds who knew where there was some spare office space in the Federal Reserve Building, deliciously air-cooled.* Now nearing completion on Washington's "Triangle" is the new, massive Social Security Building. Mac thinks it's just the place for the National Defense Advisory Commission, just the place for Army headquarters, now in the Munitions Building. Social Security officials don't like the plan, but with McReynolds behind it there's not much they...
...gigantically framed and wildly clad," writes Irish Canadian John Mac-Cormac about his heroine, Canada. This sentence is one of the few in his book that will not come as news to a majority of U. S. readers. For Mr. MacCormac, longtime New York Times correspondent in Canada, elsewhere writes neither in such brogue nor in platitudes but with a keen sense of U. S. ignorance about Canada, a brimming ability to fill in that ignorance...
...Barnabymen forced five out of the six singles bonts into extra sets but were unable to win any of them. Langdon Gilkey fell before Mac Stephens 6-1, 2-6, 6-4; Dave Burt bowed to Sewall Cutler, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5; Johnny Palfrey lost to Bill Thorn, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2; Harris Westhelmer was outlasted by Bob Freedman, 10-8, 5-7, 6-1; Chet Legg was disposed of by Steckler of Yale, 6-2, 6-4; and Jack Stewart lost to Wheeler...
...Elis have a strong well-balanced team. Sewall Cutler, Captain Mac Stephens, Bob Freedman, and Bill Thorn are the outstanding Yale stars...