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...side of his mouth like a Brooklyn politician. Blue-eyed Bill Harrison started his career climbing telephone poles for $6 a week, worked up to vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph, got into the defense program by sheer accident. One day in 1940 Bill Knudsen, in search of a construction expert for OPM, called A.T. & T. President Walter Gifford, was switched to Harrison because Gifford was out of town. Harrison took the job, moved up to OPM's production chief...
...This secret anger and this constant search for ways to kill could not but change men's hearts"; and the change-which calls forth some of the most just and serious writing in the book-deeply worried Ling Tan. In his sleepless nights he thought: "Is this not the end of our people when we become like other warlike people in the world?" And he answered himself, admitting the necessity of killing: "And yet in these days we must remember that peace is good. The young cannot remember, and it is we who must remember and teach them again...
...Goldwyn's hired hands have worked hard to give us a new slant on the old hick-meets-city-girl situation. This version has Gary Cooper as a musty grammarian who goes to the masses in search of live vernacular. Inevitably, he meets Barbara Stanwyck, who is a night-club warbler with Gene Krupa's orchestra. She talks a Hollywoodish brand of slang that will leave even the boys from Lindy's open-mouthed...
...Managerial Migration. By year's end some 300 U.S. businessmen had taken $1-a-year jobs in Washington. The number who went to Washington in search of priorities, defense contracts or mere information passed all count. The Mayflower Hotel's 1941 telephone bill was $300,000, 50% more than 1940, 200% more than 1929; and its total liquor sales, which were $410,000 in 1940, rose...
Coach Al McCoy will send his Yardling quintet in search of its third straight win tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building against a Northeastern team coached by a former pupil of his, "Foxey" Flumere. McCoy coached Flumere during his seven year stay at Northeastern from...