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Last week in Manhattan conventioning members of the Society of Automotive Engineers inclined to agree with Defense Transport bigwigs from Washington that the ideal U.S. truck of the future may well be as unstreamlined, blunt, durable and efficient as a jeep...
...reared blunt, thundering, red-faced Andrew Jackson Higgins, boss and promoter of the whole show: "gross stupidity . . . a pretext . . . worse for the State than if the river flooded New Orleans." Sympathetic Louisiana Representatives started an investigation. Last week the investigating committee completed publication of its hearings, now anyone could decide for himself why the Higgins yard was closed...
...House of Marlborough to marry pretty women, love the British Empire, dine well and raise hell in politics. Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Winston, had "force, caprice and charm." At times he also had bitter words for his colleagues in the House of Commons and blunt criticism of mismanaged government...
...Blunt, news-nosed Gene Howe is a colorful, individualistic publisher who is not averse to a bit of honest ballyhoo. Nobody outside the Navy-least of all a newspaper-had ever won a Navy E for recruiting, but Gene ("Old Tack") Howe's Amarillo (Tex.) Globe-News had one-gratefully awarded by the head of the Dallas naval recruiting district, husky Lieut. L. H. Ridout Jr., for recruiting a special squadron of 60 "Skybusters" (naval aviation cadets). Last week he lost...
...personal impressions of Joseph Stalin were made up of clichés, though he apparently was trying his old technique of extravagantly praising his international friends: "It is very fortunate for Russia to have this great, rugged war chief . . . massive and strong personality . . . inexhaustible courage . . , direct and even blunt in speech . . . saving sense of humor . . . deep, cool wisdom and complete absence of illusion...