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...praised bee-busy workers at a Portland, Ore. launching, Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, salty chairman of the Maritime Commission, was reminded of a jingle. Hastily doctored transcriptions of the talk (broadcast later...
Major General John C. H. ("Cliff") Lee, the cherubic, bald, bee-busy U.S. supply chief in England, refuses to change his outfit's name from Services of Supply to Army Service Forces until officially and specifically ordered to do so. (He has not yet received such an order.) Military men regard his organization as a model of efficiency in all things great & small. As an example, SOS men in London last week pointed with pride to an American-English glossary General Lee had had printed for his men. Immediate reason: someone almost sent to the U.S. for garbage cans...
Related to two old Boston families (Thayer and Thorndike), the young president served a turn with First National Bank of Boston and with Boston Skyways. On a trip to Los Angeles he bought the bankrupt plant of Kay Bee Manufacturing Co., a motorcycle-light manufacturer, began making aviation lighting equipment. Lights, Inc., formed in 1932, supplied Pan American with field equipment, zoomed in 1940 when the Government ordered $1,400,000 worth of portable lights...
...SNAKE IN THE GRASS- James Howard Wellard-Dodd, Mead ($2). The violent death of a gentleman, traveling on an alias during an extramarital holiday in a fashionable Southern hotel, greatly excites an inquisitive sociologist with a detecting bee and a great number of odd "contacts" in quite unscholarly circles. A profusion of red herrings delays the action slightly, but the learned sleuth's highly individual methods offset minor defects...
James's own first choices, harking back to the days when his father taught him classic circus numbers, are probably his trumpet arrangements of music-master favorites (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Carnival of Venice, et al.) His biggest Success Secret is the astute James theory that wartime fans, tired of pure heat, now want their heartstrings twanged. Other heartthrob Success Secrets in James's band: Helen Forrest, throb-voiced torcheuse, who copes as smoothly with wacky songs as with moon-June lyrics; Johnny McAfee, vocalist, and Corky Corcoran, sax wizard...