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...DENISE BALMER...
Died. Edwin Balmer, 75, novelist (coauthor with Philip Wylie of When Worlds Collide), longtime (1927-49) editor of Redbook magazine; of a heart attack; in North Tarrytown...
...Strobel's boss, General Services Administrator Edmund Mansure, resigned under Administration pressure after charges that he had helped give a $40,000 insurance contract at the U.S. Government's nickel plant in Nicaro, Cuba to an old Chicago political crony, William J. Balmer...
...Hand. His closest political pal was one William J. Balmer, a Republican power in Chicago since the second corrupt reign (1927-31) of "Big Bill" Thompson. An old hand at doing business with GSA (the Justice Department is suing him for $400,000 on the ground that he used fraudulent means to buy surplus Government property), Balmer sponsored Mansure for the GSA job, and then began to advise him frequently on important contracts. At just the right time Balmer registered as an insurance broker and obtained, through Mansure's GSA, a whopping insurance contract at the U.S. Government...
...take a quizzical look at Mansure's managership. The eventual result was the polite and pointed exchange of letters. As he cleaned out his desk last week, Mansure expressed a bit of philosophy that explained a great deal. "I stand by my friends," he said. "I felt about Balmer the same way Harry Truman felt about Pendergast...