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Most important, in WPB's second week, was a step which went almost unnoticed outside its own offices. On Nelson's desk each morning bald Statistician Stacy May began to place a fat progress report: day-by-day, company-by-company deliveries of armaments and armament parts stacked against the quotas. In OPM, a lazy or incompetent chief could sit motionless at his desk for months without having anyone the wiser. Under Nelson's WPB, any failures should show up at once in the morning report on his desk...
When he took up quarters in the Army's Munitions Building, airmen eyed him narrowly. His expression told them nothing. They saw a slim, bald man with a brooding, priestlike face distinguished by a finely chiseled nose, a determined chin. But Army airmen, a friendly lot, were bowled over when they were called to Bob Lovett's office and asked to help him to find out the score of the grim game he had entered...
That the isolationists lost in the final accounting was no thanks to Congress as a whole. Two men did most to turn the isolationist drive: Texas' little, bald, Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, and Massachusetts' long-toothed John McCormack. No heroes of the antique mold, they were political in-fighters doing a job for Franklin Roosevelt, but they sometimes seemed of heroic size in the dismal months...
Those who crowded up front saw a pudgy man with cheeks like apple dumplings, blue eyes beneath crooked restless eyebrows, the merest foam-flecking of sandy gray hair on his bald pink pate, a long black cigar clenched at a belligerent angle above his bulldog jaw. From the sleeves of his blue sack coat extended long cuffs, half hiding the small hands folded placidly across his middle...
...staff fretted over Dumbo's characterization and form, had about decided to give him a head shaped like a human's when Artist Vladimir ("Bill") Tytla asserted himself. Dark, ponderous Tytla is generally assigned to the "heavies," created the devil-giant for Fantasia's Night on Bald Mountain. Since he was doing the big elephants, he had to draw a Dumbo stand-in for the sequence in which Mrs. Jumbo receives her baby via stork...