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Among the 22 passengers on the initial flight, publicity-wise Pan Am had included 15 bigwig publishers and editors. They had taken tea with Prime Minister Clement Attlee, dined with China's Generalissimo, supped with General Douglas MacArthur. With lesser luminaries, they wined & dined in Istanbul, Calcutta, Manila and Honolulu...
Pack and his "Pibe" (Argentine slang for "The Kid") got back in time to cover Italy's fall. One night in Naples, tipped off that an Allied bigwig was arriving, they invited fellow reporters in for a binge. While Pibe got them drunk, Pack slipped out to get his interview. When the boys missed him and scrambled in pursuit, they found that he had crippled their jeeps...
Thirsty for atomic news, good or bad, the Manhattan dailies last week pounced on some remarks made by Soviet scientific adviser Semen P. Alexandrov. who is a bigwig at Moscow's Central Institute of Research in Non-Ferrous Metals, and was one of Russia's two official witnesses at Bikini. It might be useful, Professor Alexandrov had suggested, to have a "balance sheet" which would show the amount of each nation's raw material and the efficiency of mining methods. It might also be useful to compare notes on how uranium and thorium deposits were classified. Russia...
...tell where the fractures might show up in the congressional elections in November. But the air was heavy with gloom. National Chairman Bob Hannegan and his able young assistant Gael Sullivan got on the telephone as soon as the dust had cleared. They called many a local Party bigwig. Some were ready to hang out the crepe right away, but many others thought they had suffered nothing worse than sprains and minor dislocations...
...Affairs' editorial board, board of trustees and list of charter members were studded with such bigwig names as James Landis, Will Clayton, Gardner Cowles, William Benton. Pardridge had dreamed of just such a board when he was an unpromising student at the University of Chicago. There he had flunked 27 courses (freshman English four times), remained a freshman three years, never did get his degree. Later he wound up on the Chicago faculty as an $1,800-a-year research assistant in geography...