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...Bradford Huie, 43, is a glib, self-promoting free-lance writer who likes nothing better than to be in hot water. He has attacked everything from college football to the U.S. Navy, and has been denounced as regularly and heatedly as he denounces. Last week in Live Oak, Fla., Alabama-born Bill Huie was once again in a cauldron of boiling water, and enjoying every spurt of steam. This time the heat was generated by the case of Ruby McCollum...
Died. William March (full name: William Edward March Campbell), 60, Alabama-born novelist best known for his bitter novel of World War I, Company K (1933), and his newly published horror tale, The Bad Seed (TIME, April 12); of pneumonia; in New Orleans...
DONOLD BRADFORD LOURIE, 53, president of Quaker Oats Co., to be Under Secretary of State in charge of administration. Alabama-born, a Princeton graduate (class of '22), Lourie began as a statistics clerk at Quaker Oats; by 1947 he was company president. In his college days an All-America quarterback, he is still trim and something of an athlete, playing a lot of squash rackets and some golf (average score: low 90s). A crack administrator, friendly and not stuffy, he gets results by encouraging rather than nagging...
...operations boss, Mike Straight picked fortyish, Alabama-born Helen Fuller. Managing Editor Fuller, little known as a journalist, went to Washington in the early days of the New Deal, and worked for the Justice Department and National Youth Administration. After Straight took over the magazine in 1940, she joined its Washington bureau...
After that day in 1939, James Jefferson Davis Hall, Alabama-born Episcopalian who moved to Manhattan in 1924, spent most of his time answering calls to his number, Circle 6-6483. It was an unorthodox mission, but the spry, bearded old pastor had never let custom stand in his way. For nine years, from 1928 to 1937, he had preached to noon-hour crowds in the downtown financial district, become known as "The Bishop of Wall Street." Now he became "Dad" Hall, the telephone preacher, and as word of his number spread, he got dozens of calls a day. Each...