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...Douglas MacArthur's first detailed account of his stewardship in Japan and Korea ran to some 100,000 words and had the usual MacArthur attributes. It read well; detailed facts punctuated its sweeping perspective. And it boiled down to one basic fact: General MacArthur had done a bang-up job of occupying Japan...
...quality of the food has been maintained at a high level nevertheless, Durant and Westcott claimed, although Durant said that a "really bang-up job" could be done for a higher price. The committee, however, sees no need to "sacrifice our present rates, which are equitable for all incomes, in order to cater to luxury tastes...
International's production boss is round-faced, even-tempered William Goetz, 42, who did a bang-up job of running 20th Century-Fox while Darryl Zanuck was a colonel in the Army. After making the Academy Award picture, The Song of Bernadette, Goetz quit in a huff when Zanuck returned and began acting like a "little colonel" around the studio. Goetz approached dark, dapper Leo Spitz, 57, Hollywood's legal and financial know-it-all. A boy wonder (he earned his Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees before he was 21), Spitz masterminded the reorganization...
Beckoned by special advertisements in Rio's newspapers, 150 relatives, friends and gawkers boarded a special train which Gabriella had provided. On Corcovado's peak, while the crowd waited an hour for Gabriella to arrive (by limousine), a vendor did a bang-up business in sandwiches and bananas. Then the cloud curtain parted. A brilliant sun laid Rio bare and dazzling, 2,300 ft. below. Madame Lage strode on stage. Beneath the statue of Christ the Redeemer, a priest intoned a short service. In 15 minutes, it was all over...
...dizzy fiscal feat with the Warren City Tank & Boiler Co., Warren, Ohio (pop. 43,000). The company's $7,000.000 plant was built by the Navy but, under private management, was falling down on the job of making landing barges, etc. So Joe Frazer, fresh from doing a bang-up production job at Willys-Overland Motors Inc., took over...