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Whenever the good, grey New York Times scored a notable beat on labor union news over the past quarter-century, competing papers scarcely needed to look at the byline to know who had scooped them. Almost always it was studious, mild-mannered Louis Stark, ablest of U.S. labor reporters...
...Second, ablest and most energetic of the Hearst sons, tall (6 ft. 1 in.) and balding at 43, he looks remarkably like his father, but lacks old W.R.'s iron will and steel-trap mind. But of all the sons, Bill has worked hardest at earning his newspaper spurs. While attending a small military academy in San Rafael, Calif., he spent his vacations working as a "flyboy" in the New York Mirror pressroom, after two years at University of California left school to work as a police-station cub for the old New York American...
...present, only one of the quintet of Hearst sons is regarded as likely to be entrusted with top management. He is the ablest and most responsible of the lot: balding William Randolph Hearst Jr., 43, now publisher of the Journal-American and the American Weekly...
...Firth & Brown's 72-year-old chairman, Lord Aberconway, it looked as if Hardie had cut the very spinal cord of the company when he fired the directors, including three of his ablest technicians. The government asked Lord Aberconway to stay, in spite of the fact that he also serves as chairman of the shipbuilding company. But he resigned, saying: "I feel that without their technical and business knowledge, I should not be of any. help to you." At week's end Firth & Brown had only three directors left, two of them recent government appointees. ". . . The company...
...Administration, against Admiral Sherman himself. By his able advocacy of Navy views, by his quietly effective defense of Navy abilities, the new CNO quickly restored order and confidence. The newest member of the J.C.S. (replacing Admiral Denfeld, who was sacked in the unification row), he quickly proved himself its ablest member, a well-trained professional fighting man who also had a grip of world politics unmatched by any of his associates...