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Sunstill* is only one man's solution for a military problem that is now engaging some of the best minds in & out of the services (TIME, June 21). But its financier and sponsor-a big, blond, 38-year-old bachelor named George Gallowhur-is by now the hero of a little business career as American as ice cream...
...Business. Today the Gallowhur Chemical Co., in its rustic plant-by-a-waterfall in Windsor, Vt., not far from Bachelor Gallowhur's 2,000-acre farm, is producing Skat at the rate of 5,000,000 bottles a month. Among its big customers is the U.S. Coast Guard: shore-patrol horses are sprayed with Skat to repel sard flies...
First Blood. In June of 1918, 14 months after the U.S. entered World War I, Terry Allen was a captain, a passionate and accomplished poloist, a drinker and bachelor of considerable renown, a cavalryman without a war where horses were required. In that month he went to France, where he soon got his first infantry command. At a school for infantry officers in France. Allen arrived the day before a class was to graduate. He lined up with that class. Said the commandant, passing out certificates: "I don't remember you in this class...
...prig and a bully. But he gives to Gerald's death "a kind of primitive dignity" by describing the servants who wept: "They had not liked Gerald, but he was a man, they were women, he had died." In A Passage To India, Cyril Fielding, who as a bachelor bravely opposed Anglo-Indian snobbism and narrowness, becomes snobbish and narrow himself when he marries and becomes an official. Dr. Aziz changes from the sensitive, enlightened Indian to an impudent, cocksure babu...
...Hollywood's bachelor Congressman, grey-thatched John M. Costello, member of the Military Affairs Committee, flew to the coast with Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold and Britain's Sir John Dill for a quick inspection of aircraft plants. To John Costello the aircraft workers unburdened themselves: they were shocked when they saw the first tax deduction on their paychecks. They did not mind paying now, but how long would this...