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Badoglio. Of these Army heads, far the ablest and most experienced is Pietro Giuseppe Vittorio Luigi Badoglio, 68, Senator, Marquis of Sabotino, Duke of Addis Ababa. He has fought in all Italian wars since Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia whipped the Italians in Eritrea in 1896 and he, a lieutenant of artillery, helped save the town of Adigrat. He was credited with planning the victory of Zanzur in 1911, which wrested Libya from Turkey. His capture of Mt. Sabotino from the Austrians in 1916 led to the victory at Gorizia and won Colonel Badoglio his generalship. His Second Army...
...European chief, Edward Murrow, onetime president of the National Student Federation of America, wields an efficient baton over this radio symphony. Among stars that he commands are Thomas Grandin, who patrolled Columbia's Paris beat, and William L. Shirer, whose talks from Berlin have established him as the ablest newscaster of them all. Roving assistants to Grandin in Paris were Eric Sevareid, once editor of the Paris Herald, Larry Leseur, a U. P. man'until he joined Columbia, Mary Marvin Breckinridge, who graduated into radio newscasting via Vassar and photography. Edwin Har-trich, a onetime Herald Tribune...
...World War II few U. S. citizens took U. S.-Canadian relations seriously. Last week President Roosevelt indicated how seriously they could take them from now on by planking one of the ablest and most experienced U. S. diplomats into the post that Mr. Cromwell had vacated. To the Senate for confirmation (immediately forthcoming) he sent the name of Jay Pierrepont Moffat, 43, chief of the all-important European Division of the State Department...
...like the War Industries Board of 1917-18, could get results. Most of all he needed a man like Bernard Baruch. All week advisers and an occasional tycoon (see p. 18) passed through the White House. Franklin Roosevelt, who has neither liked nor trusted businessmen, needed the ablest of businessmen and needed him quickly, needed him badly. It was the irony...
...Minnesota-born Adolf Dehn has drawn, etched and lithographed in black. A specialist in bulging bankers and pneumatic nuns, Dehn went to Manhattan in 1916, got odd jobs drawing for the old Liberator, drifted off to Europe for a spell, soon made himself a reputation as one of the ablest and most individual black-&-white men in the U. S. Half straight, half comic, Dehn's squirming, salty lithographs were prized by art connoisseurs as well as magazine readers, made the grade of leading U. S. and European art museums...