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Cartoonist Hank Ketcham, 32, has realized a father's dream: he converted his troubles with his squirmy, spring-legged, 4½-year-old son into a $40,000-a-year net asset. Ketcham's Dennis the Menace is syndicated in 112 U.S. newspapers and in 52 others all over the world. Dennis, who is not intimidated by his view of the world between a clutter of long adult legs, is the constant winner in his never-ending war with the exasperated adults who surround him. For example, he can easily undo both his mother and her tea guest...
...Navy on the recommendation of Harry Truman's crony, White House Aide Donald Dawson. Whitehair was not a hit with the admirals, who thought that he neglected the Navy in favor of politics in his home state of Florida. They were scandalized when he gave an $11,800-a-year job to William E. Willett, another Dawson pal whom the Senate had refused to reconfirm as an RFC director (TIME, Dec. 24, 1951). Worst of all was Whitehair's arrogance. He told one admiral: "When you come in here to see me, bring a notebook with you." Navy...
With time out to do a turn with WPB during World War II, Solinskj' built his little Cans, Inc. into an $8,000,000-a-year business making containers for Perk Dog Food (TIME, Sept. 29), popcorn, potato chips and beer. Competitors think the trouble with National Can is that it has been run too long by men who have been sitting on their own product. By exploiting such new markets as canned whole milk, Solinsky hopes to get the company back on its feet, boost it from fourth to third in the industry. Says...
...grandson of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, who successfully fought to keep the U.S. out of the League of Nations, Cabot Lodge has long been a leading voice in the internationalist wing of the Republican Party. In his new $25,000-a-year post, he is also expected to be "one of the Administration's principal advisers and representatives in the formulation and conduct of foreign policy...
...Beverly Pepper was the Hollywood image of a rising young career girl. Slim and sleekly tailored, she was vice president and art director of a Manhattan ad agency. But Beverly also suffered one of advertising's occupational diseases: she spent more than half her $16,000-a-year income on psychiatrists. One analyst finally gave her a piece of simple advice for her money: quit being a female executive and be just a female...