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...weeks the corridors of Detroit's General Motors Building buzzed with rumors. President Charles Erwin Wilson had been very busy-and very quiet. G.M.'s top brass, so the gossip went, was in for the biggest shake-up in years. This week the shaking started. The biggest shake of all was given Harlow H. ("Red") Curtice, 55, the slight, reserved general manager of the Buick Motor division. He was moved up to the newly created job of G.M. executive vice president in charge of all nonproduction activities except finance (labor relations, public relations, etc.) The promotion...
...dozens of eggs and tomatoes. He was hit at least nine times, splattered by near misses five times. In Hickory, N.C., two rotten eggs plopped near him. Cried Wallace bitterly: "As Jesus Christ told his disciples, if at any town they will not listen to you will ingly, then shake the dust from your feet and go elsewhere."* He shook off the dust of Hickory...
...courage for a new hairdo, Collier's looked in the mirror-and decided to make some changes. The new Look and the Saturday Evening Post, smartened up by Editor Ben Hibbs, were proving far too attractive for Collier's comfort. This week, following an editorial shake-up (TIME, June 7), Collier's underwent a face-lifting and put on a new dress...
Your account of the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss debate is a masterpiece of "bend-ing-over-backwards" fairness. Would like to shake your collective hand...
...been in trouble before, but it had usually found a way out, even during the depression. The late opera-loving Banker Otto H. Kahn, longtime board chairman, used to shake his white head at the losses, say "That's all right, that's all right," and dash off six-figure checks. The U.S. public, when asked, had also rushed to the rescue; once when it was asked to donate $1,000,000 to buy the Met's building, it oversubscribed by $57,000. Yet when opera lovers last week suggested raising a fund to "save...