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...Chapter at, its meeting: Robert F. Brad ford, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: John H. Bradley, of Lowell, a geologist, author, and former Associate professor of Geology at the University of Southern California; Starting Dow, associate professor of History at Harvard; Edward V. Huntington, professor of Mathematics, emeritus, at Harvard; Nathan M. Pusey, President of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin; and Wallace Steven, of Hartford, a lawyer and poet
Chicago's extraordinary Duke of Groceries annexed another province to his growing duchy. Canadian-born Nathan Cummings, who became a wholesale grocer only five years ago, when he took charge of Baltimore's ailing 72-year-old Kenny Co., is now one of the biggest wholesale grocers...
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (Nathan Milstein and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Milstein's capricious violin is perfectly paced by a razor-sharp orchestral reading of the lighthearted concerto. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
...Nathan is an old hand at tilting with the Army. As chairman of WPB's planning committee back in 1943, he demanded billions for war when the services were content to ask for millions; fought to spend the money to expand the supply of raw materials when the Army wanted to spend it on plants, even though there were no materials in sight to keep the plants running. Later, he was drafted into the Army, given a medical discharge seven months later. WThile in the Army hospital, he wrote a book, Mobilizing jor Abundance, (McGraw-Hill-$2) which briefly...
Neither Bob Nathan, nor anyone else in WPB or the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, intends to short-change the armed services. But the sudden cutback in planes has made both WPB and OWMR wary. From now on, Army demands will be currycombed as never before. Said one OWMRster: "If just one kid is killed in the Pacific for lack of any weapon, then we've failed in our jobs. But we don't see any sense in arming every doughfoot with five machine guns if he can shoot only one. That might wreck our chances...