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...Gave baldish, hard-working Lewis Compton of Metuchen, N. J. a job which the President and three other Roosevelts have held. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt chose Mr. Compton at the insistence of the Navy high command and Secretary Charles Edison. Messrs. Edison and Compton came out of New Jersey together to serve with early New Deal agencies, went to the Navy Department together when Mr. Edison became Assistant Secretary in 1937. When & if Charles Edison resigns to run for Governor of New Jersey, they will presumably go out together. Reason: in the team of Edison & Compton...
This was Ross Mclntire, White House doctor, a small, baldish, informal man who pays no attention to the heavy titles and gold braid-Rear Admiral, Surgeon General of the U. S. Navy-conferred on him by a grateful President. After nearly seven years of checking up on Mr. Roosevelt's health, Admiral Mclntire last week told the President he could let himself go. This meant that Mr. Roosevelt could have that second dish of ice cream he often craves...
...Short, baldish, kindly Bishop Sheil last week was sworn, by a judge, as a corporation sole-a one-man holding company authorized, by act of the Illinois Legislature, to run Chicago's Catholic affairs. Appointed interim head of the archdiocese by its board of consultors, the bishop may serve six months or more, for the Vatican takes its time about filling important posts. Chicago-born, an able pitcher 33 years ago at St. Viator's College, dynamic Bishop Sheil became a diocesan official 15 years ago, has been a bishop for ten. His fame is more than local...
Next day in the House of Commons Laborite John Morgan rose up to ask how many men the Ministry employed. Tall, baldish Sir Edward Grigg, appointed that morning to represent the Ministry in Parliament, answered for the Government: there were 872 in London, 127 provincial employes. A gusty Whew! swept like a wind through the House, followed by cries of anguish. Of these 999, Sir Edward added, 43 were former newsmen, 48 were Ministry officers chosen because they had press or radio experience. His explanation was greeted with a roar of laughter and jeers...
Last week Robert Marion Metcalf could congratulate himself on a big job well done, in the nick of time. A short, baldish, bustling American with a fringe-beard, he knows and loves medieval stained glass. Since 1938 he has been scurrying around France with a Leica camera, color-photographing stained glass windows faster than the French Government could replace them in the Gothic cathedrals from which it removed them during World War I. He photographed all the windows in tide-swept Mont St. Michel, Le Mans, Chartres. At times when he had to stop and rest, Robert Metcalf...