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Died. Lucius Nathan Littauer, 85, glovemaker and first citizen of Gloversville, N.Y.; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Gentle, bald, waving-mustached Littauer was Harvard '78, a high-tariff Republican Congressman (1897-1907), a philanthropist whose most noted single gift ($2,250,000) founded Harvard's graduate School of Public Administration and Littauer Center. In 1939 he said he had "confidence for the future in spite of the present." In 1941, asked his opinion of the world at large, he sighed, "Don't ask me that. I'm a pessimist...
...powerful newcomer has arisen in the U.S. wholesale grocery business. Under the very noses of the alpaca-sleeved grocer barons, dapper, cold-eyed Nathan Cummings, 47, has fashioned himself a duchy. Cummings, boss of Chicago and Baltimore's Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp., wound up in twelve hours of feverish trading a deal that made him a real power in the business...
...Kirkland House, and Searsdale, New York; W. L. Jack Edwards of Adams House and Dallas, Texas; Stephen D. Becker of Adams House and Yonkers, New York; William Murphy and Robert W. Mullins of Dudley, the commuters' center; Victor J. Critchlow of Dunster House and Portland, Oregon; and Nathan Weston of Dunster House and Cambridge...
...Solomons, where air attacks have increased in weight and intensity since Major General Nathan F. Twining took tactical command of Army, Navy and Marine Corps planes, heavy blows fell on Bougainville and on the stranded Jap garrison on Kólombangara...
...Critic George Jean Nathan, following his own fetishes, urged that "once a girl strips, she should be revealed not in bare anatomy but in a very sheer thin blue dress with a white lace collar...