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Coleman did such a bang-up job that when President Alfred J. Doughty retired, there was no competition for his $36,000-a-year job. Now Coleman, who will boss operations (new board chairman Laurence V. Britt will lay down policy), intends to cut out at least 80% of Burroughs' 400 models, mass-produce the rest. He will have to eat up Burroughs' big backlog of $63 million in orders. Unlike others, Burroughs has benefited from increased Government regulation and complicated tax laws. They have made figuring machines a No. 1 necessity to businessmen...
...sleepy-voiced Arch McDonald has been announcing baseball for 15 years, is so well known around Washington that he easily won the Democratic nomination for Congress (from Maryland) last June. His partner will be James Joseph ("Jimmy") Britt, a hustling 36-year-old who announces all Boston Red Sox and Braves home games in a fluid but spicy manner. Fans consider Arch and Jimmy among the best in the business, but they still like to hear the Corum drawl...
...Britt, Iowa, hung its bunting out again last week; the hoboes were coming to town. They cannonballed from east & west, bedded down in the town park, the jungle under the railroad water tank, in freight cars. Scholarly Roger Payne, 72, and plump Polly Pep were exceptions. Payne slept in the school doorway; Polly, the only woman delegate to the bindle stiffs' first postwar convention, picked a haystack...
...business sense, there was little doing at the high powwow. The hoboes were glad to be back in Britt (pop.: 2,000), where they had met off & on since 1900. The "big spuds" (city officials) welcomed them because they lured some 10,000 curious North Iowa visitors to town. In gratitude, the boes ladled enough Mulligan stew from billycans to feed the crowd. They chewed the guff about life on the road and the state of the union. All agreed that times were tough. There were so many jobs to be had, it took an iron will to remain...
Footballer. Captain Maurice L. ("Footsy") Britt, aged 24, of Lonoke, Ark., played football at the University of Arkansas, later was an end for the Detroit Lions. Last week he was in Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta, recuperating from the loss of his right arm, shot off at Anzio two months ago. His medal was won in another Italian action last November. Despite many wounds in his side, chest, face and hands, Footsy Britt advanced with eight men, personally killed five Germans, wiped out a machine-gun nest, fired five clips (75 rounds) of carbine ammunition, more rifle ammunition, threw 32 grenades...