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...eight pages, Pravda devoted a laudatory seven to his work. The Government decorated him with the Order of Lenin. The city of Perm was renamed Molotov; the town of Nolinsk. Molotovsk; the Red Hydropress plant in Taganrog the Molotov Plant. Alexander Lozovsky, then a trade-union bigwig, paid him a lush compliment: "Comrade Molotov combines Russian revolutionary ability with American efficiency." For helping to boost tank production, the Soviet Government a fortnight ago gave him its highest civilian honor: Hero of Socialist Labor...
...flight staff members include classically beautiful Barbara Ward, who handles most of the foreign news; onetime economics professor Donald Tyerman; Walter Hill, the Economist's German-educated industrial and trade expert. Staffers work in complete anonymity, submerging their own personalities to the paper's. Result: many a bigwig who would not condescend to see rank-&-file newsmen enjoys confiding in Economist writers...
...Winston Churchill, only historians can decide. But last week his body, semiofficially, was laid to rest in the longest, most expensive cinema ever made in Britain. Present to applaud The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at London's Odeon Theatre were Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, many another bigwig...
...Lanphier, tangled with a low-flying Zero, shot it down. He swung away, picked a bomber, shot it down too. Up above, the top-cover fight had broken off. A mission had been completed. The squadron whisked back to its Solomons base, wondered if it had nailed some Jap bigwig in the bombers...
Dick Allen, who handles soccer, is another of the super-efficient boys, and so is Frank Billings, baseball bigwig. Art Lehman does some announcing as fencing manager, but he doesn't have Gentry's audience. Brad Perkins, Jaakko Mikkola's aide de camp, dons the togs for a daily jog, and Ollie Ames, who handled golf last spring, was one of the few player-managers...