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...Henderson, Paul Porter, Chester Bowles-and conferred earnestly with them for two days. He patched together some suggestions and sent them to Wilson. They were not enough. With a flick of his wrist, Mobilizer Wilson got Valentine fired and installed in his place Washington-wise Eric Johnston, $125,000-a-year boss of Hollywood's Hays office and ex-president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see below). Before Johnston even got his feet planted under a bureaucratic desk, a freeze of prices and wages and a partial rollback of prices were in the works...
Elbert D. Thomas, 67, Utah's kindly, scholarly Democratic Senator for the past 18 years, took a $17,500-a-year job as the first civilian High Commissioner of the Pacific islands taken from Japan in World War II (and since governed by the Navy). A lifetime student of the Pacific area and onetime Mormon missionary in Japan (1907-12), Thomas helped lay out the U.N. formula for postwar trusteeships at Montreal...
...lean, handsome William Remington, Commerce Department economist, was accused of being a Communist back in 1948, he defended himself with such injured but manly firmness that he won what seemed to be vindication of a sort. The top U.S. loyalty review board sent him back to his $10,330-a-year job. The New Yorker ran a 24-column article about his ordeal. Meanwhile, Remington sued for $100,000 and got an out-of-court settlement from the network and sponsor of a television program on which onetime Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley had affirmed her accusations-that...
Last week The Miracle made headlines by offending Edward T. McCaffrey, $15,000-a-year license commissioner of New York City and onetime national commander of the Catholic War Veterans. McCaffrey, a holdover from the O'Dwyer administration, has power to grant, suspend and revoke the licenses of the city's movie theaters (as well as of legitimate theaters, laundries, bowling alleys, etc.). After Ways of Love had been running for more than a week, McCaffrey sent the Paris Theater an order to stop showing The Miracle or face suspension-and possibly revocation-of its license. The movie...
...admitted last week that it was negotiating with Soprano Margaret Truman to make guest appearances on both radio and TV. NBC Vice President Charles Barry hinted that the salary under discussion would be "less than $200,000 a year," but probably more than the $100,000-a-year salary of her father. NBC's interest in Margaret, said Barry, resulted from her "great performance" when she sang and acted last month on Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show. Of her possibilities as a future mistress of ceremonies he said, ecstatically: "Miss Truman has a quality that you rarely...