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They also fought effectively. Hints of the headlong desperation of their smashing drives into Nazi lines even crept into German communiques. Berlin admitted that the Russians were on the edge of the Soviets' Pittsburgh -Kharkov -by saying that the city had been under heavy artillery fire. Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient...
Since Dec. 20 bald, lean "Rey" King had been Commander in Chief, United States Fleet. He had been brought to Washington from command of the Atlantic fleet, given more authority than any CINCUS ever had before. Submarine man, naval aviator and onetime Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, Admiral King is air-minded. Thus, twice in two weeks, the President, in military shakeups, had emphasized air warfare...
...Bald, bashful, nervous Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau had mapped his campaign like a general getting ready for a spring offensive. He had stored up quantities of materiel for verbal war. His scouts had reconnoitered the House and Senate. This week, as his adding machines rolled forward, Mr. Morgenthau invaded Congress with the greatest army of tax proposals ever seen on earth...
Colgate's gruff old President Cutten sized up President-elect Case last week and decided he would do. Barked Cutten, bringing a characteristic lopsided grin to Ev Case's freckled face: "No one ever heard of a bald-headed fool." Like all past Colgate presidents, Case is a Baptist...
Colgate got a new president last week whose bald head belies his years (40). To succeed retiring George Barton Cutten (TIME, Feb. 2), Colgate's trustees chose judicious, pipe-smoking Everett Needham Case, son-in-law of Owen D. Young...