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...Democratic primary election is not until Aug. 3 of next year, so Acuff will have time to decide whether he wants to trade a reported $50,000 annual income for a $4,000-a-year Governorship. And Red Snapper Crump will have time to fish up another candidate. His present stooge in the Governorship, dull, nervous little Prentice Cooper, will be finishing a third term and ineligible for reelection. Smart Hillbilly Acuff, whose political ambitions may well hinge on their publicity value to him, said only "I know I'm a good fiddler-but I don't know...
Until pachydermatous (275 lb.) Frederick Riebel Jr. was ousted from his $30,000-a-year job as president of Brewster Aeronautical Corp. three weeks ago, he kept his mouth tightly closed. But last week, before the House Naval Affairs Committee, which is probing Brewster's snail-paced production, Mr. Riebel rattled all the Brewster skeletons in public...
Major Horace E. Dodge Jr., auto heir, was characterized as "a positive detriment to the war effort" in an affidavit filed in Manhattan by his third wife, Martha ("Mickey") Devine, ex-Ziegfeld beauty. She wanted a separation and $60,000-a-year alimony. She said Dodge had once told her: "This is a war as to who will rule the world, between Adolf and Joe, and my vote is for Adolf...
...Girdler, Republic Steel's $176,000-a-year Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Board of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, has come to be almost symbolic in steel, the industry he got into because he was homesick. As such, he has come to share the fate of most symbols-sworn by and sworn at. But Tom Girdler's autobiography, told with professional Saturday Evening Post briskness, is more than the story of steel-more than another Horatio Alger success story. Certain to give laborites the fits, the book is also a belligerently forthright portrait of a notoriously belligerent...
...Tape. To handle contract terminations, the Army now has dapper, red-tape-hating Brigadier General Albert Jesse Browning. AI Browning left his $40,000-a-year job as president of Chicago's United Wallpaper, Factories, in 1941, to earn $1 a year with OPM. Later he joined SPAB, did plenty of the spade work converting U.S. industry to war. Before he went to Washington, he had converted a good chunk of his own plant...