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...broke the bottleneck was Clay Bedford, 48, a production-engineering expert on loan from Kaiser-Frazer Corp. Charlie Wilson brought him to Washington last May (at no salary) as his production troubleshooter, because he knew that Clay Bedford was the production brain behind just about every one of Kaiser's most spectacular projects...
Ever since Bedford went to work for Henry Kaiser, right out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he has been tackling tough jobs. At 26, he was put in charge of a $20 million job on Cuba's Central Highway. Bedford then straw-bossed the building of Bonneville Dam, a project made so hazardous by the swift Columbia River that no bonding company would have anything to do with it. After doing the same job at Grand Coulee Dam, in 1940, he was made boss of Kaiser's four West Coast shipyards, even though he had never seen a ship...
Cavaliers & Cromwells. Highway robbery in England began on an amateur footing. One Thomas Dun, a precocious boy who had developed a nervous habit of murdering people, stabbed a farmer one day in the reign of Henry I (1100-1135), confiscated his wain of corn and sold it at Bedford Market. Thereby Dun gave rise to an unpleasant tradition of brutality in a business that otherwise often had its lighthearted moments...
...salute a different U.S. city. The opening program was dedicated to Boston. On hand, presumably to hail their native city, were Cartoonist Al Capp, born in New Haven, Conn.; Singer Georgia Gibbs, born in Worcester, Mass.; Cinemactor Jeffrey Lynn, born in Auburn, Mass.; Comic Ezra Stone, born in New Bedford, Mass., and Composer (Syncopated Clock) Leroy Anderson, born across the Charles River in Cambridge. The talk between Faye, born in Elizabeth, La., and her guests was both literate and amusingly informative; the production slickly paced. This week: Chicago...
Weinberg volunteered to help Wilson out for only 90 days, but he stayed on an extra 2½ months at Wilson's request. During that time, he helped staff the mobilization program with such top men as Clay Bedford, boss of the Kaiser shipyards during the war; Harvard Professor William Yandell Elliott, a raw materials expert; and George Harrison, president of A.F.L.'s Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Last week the body snatcher finally decided his job was done. He stopped in to see his boss and old friend, regretfully said goodbye, and headed back to his senior partnership...