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After serving as OPA Administrator during the war, Bowles was elected Governor of Connecticut and appointed ambassador to India in 1951. His recent book, "Ambassador's Report," contains the observations of and conclusions from his three years in the Far East. Bowles' recent three-months tour of Africa and India helped provide material for a new book on foreign policy, which he is working on at the moment...
...chairman. Bean's grandfather founded the firm in 1892. and his father, Francis A. Bean, is retiring as chairman. The new president is an honor graduate of Minnesota's Carleton College ('31), and Rhodes scholar. He joined International in 1937, had a wartime stint at OPA and in Army Intelligence. He was made executive vice president in 1944 and has concentrated on modernizing the mills...
...copy desk at the Buffalo Courier-Express, a year later went back to teaching (French) at Buffalo's exclusive Nichols School for boys. He kept on job-jumping (political reporter at the now defunct Buffalo Times, secretary to Buffalo's mayor, district manager of Buffalo's OPA office) before joining Bell as Larry Bell's assistant. An amateur chef, he cooked the meals for Bell executives when they stayed in the plant for days at a stretch rather than face angry pickets during a 1949 strike...
After retirement from the OPA in 1946, Glasser served for a brief time in a New York law firm and then obtained an appointment on the Rutgers Law faculty...
...Florida court last week there was a different Fifth Amendment situation. Leo Sheiner, a Miami attorney and World War II chief counsel for OPA's milk, cream and ice-cream section, invoking the Fifth Amendment, refused to say whether or not he was a Communist. From Sheiner's refusal Circuit Judge Vincent Giblin drew conclusions that might help to clarify a lot of public confusion about what the Fifth Amendment is and is not supposed to do. Ordering Sheiner's immediate disbarment, Judge Giblin said...