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...Soon to go was energetic, ambitious, 53-year-old Brehon B. Somervell, who as chief of the Army Service Forces ran history's greatest supply job. Already back in civilian life was Lieut. General William Knudsen, the War Department's tireless coordinator and trouble shooter on war industry's production line...
...that room, all week long, the Arab League's trouble shooter, little, egg-shaped Djamil Mardam Bey, his tufty white hair mussed and his horn-rimmed glasses damp with perspiration, had held conferences with representatives of the Arabs' six parties, trying to form a committee to direct Arab political activities. The delegates had marched up the marble stairs with backs straight and with eyes flashing. They had scuttled down muttering expletives...
...years the American Museum of Natural History's curator of birds, builder of the world's finest collection (750,000 specimens); in Manhattan. The most influential ornithologist since the great John James Audubon, gentle, ec centric Dr. Chapman - who was a confirmed but surreptitious duck-shooter - -once paid bird-loving statesman Lord Grey his highest compliment: "A charming host . . . just like a bird...
...been a top trouble-shooter for the Army's Air Transport Command-and boss of the Hump lifeline into China-last week cheerfully took on more trouble. With the store creases still fresh in his mufti, tall, tough Brigadier General Thomas Hardin went to work as executive vice president of TACA Airways' 13,000 miles of loosely knit air routes south of the border. His first move was to hire four of his top-ranking buddies in A.T.C. to help him run TACA...
Lieutenant Commander Lyal W. Clark, known to local football fans as the coach who turned out Chub Peabody et al., returned to Dick Harlow's staff yesterday as a general assistant and trouble-shooter for the balance of the season...