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...Army's youngest major generals, a colonel until 1940, "Jakie" Devers has lately done very well in command of Fort Bragg, N.C., and the Ninth (Infantry) Division. So far as actual practice or command goes, he has everything to learn about tanks. His compensating assets: a proved talent for vigorous command, a capacity for letting qualified subordinates use their brains and experience, constructive disrespect for red tape...
...order would force motormakers to get out and scratch for defense orders, especially work to which their plants can be converted and their workers and engineers transferred. So far Detroit has kept its defense work at arm's length from its auto work. If the engineering talent in Detroit (best in the world) is not allowed to work on passenger cars it will have to work on new business-i.e., defense business. This would be a shot in the arm for U.S. ordnance technology...
...George Murphy) is a serious young automobile salesman with a talent for getting barely perceptible promotions and a tendency to hiss Hitler at the movies. When he threatens to commit suicide if his proposal is rejected, she is really interested, asks breathlessly: "How?" Later, unraveling her fiancé with a phone-girl friend, she concludes: "I think maybe he gets promoted too much...
...hand at snaring such top-flight cinema talent for noncommercial rates is sharp-tongued, tapir-nosed Charles Vanda, 38, producer of Forecast. He also produces Lolly Parsons' Hollywood Premières and the Hollywood end of the U.S. Treasury's Millions for Defense. Acidulous on all matters, particularly Hollywood, Vanda is enormously popular with reporters, is privily referred to by actors as "The Toad." Mordantly witty, as typical of Manhattan as a knish, Vanda has a ready excuse for his devastating blintzkriegs. "It's all an act," he says. "Inside I'm just a sissy...
Clarinetist Pete Davis ' moves out of Manhattan's 46th Street into a series of low-grade dates in Pennsylvania in the early '20s, winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about...