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...mastermind the change of command, an old soldier of fortune who had fought through Chicago's rowdiest journalistic wars slipped into town. Ruddy, trumpet-voiced Walter Howey, prototype of the managing editor in The Front Page, had temporarily dropped his regular chores (supervising Hearst's two Boston tabloids with one hand and the American Weekly with the other) to help raise the steam pressure in the Herald-American's boilers...
Arms & the Man. One of the questions the legislators had raised was about Spruille Braden, onetime mastermind of the U.S. get-tough-with-Argentina policy. Marshall said he expected to settle that one within ten days. He soon gave evidence of what he meant. The Secretaries of War & Navy had advocated that the U.S. transfer a lot of its military equipment to Canada and Latin America, with the object of 1) nailing down the arms market; 2) standardizing and modernizing equipment throughout the Western Hemisphere; 3) thus bolstering hemispheric defenses...
Last week, on the eve of the G.O.P. state convention, these reactionary activities were rebuked by Senator Robert A. Taft, currently the mastermind of Republican strategy...
...behind New York University's late-blooming Violets was modest, blunt, hokum-hating Coach Howard ("Jake") Cann. Scornful of modern mastermind "systems," for 22 years he has coached the same kind of ball he played a quarter-century ago, when he was one of basketball's greats. He seldom diagrams a play. Once, pressed to explain his "N.Y.U. system," he deadpanned: "Well, we throw the ball around a lot and do our best to put it in the basket." His real formula: hold the score down, wear 'em out, then pour...
...Columbia. He was heroic, but no wild man, in World War I, where he picked up seven decorations, including the Congressional Medal. The Law & Politics. After the war he poked around China and Siberia, came home to work profitably at corporation law, less profitably at Republican politics. He helped mastermind the Hoover campaign, but the attorney-generalship plum fell to William D. Mitchell. Donovan ran for governor of New York, but the year was 1932, so the winner was Democrat Herbert Lehman...