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...makes over $50,000 a year, lives on Park Avenue, likes to play golf, shoot crap, go fishing. Easily accessible in his NBC office, Trammell has a reputation for softheartedness, rarely fires a man until he has tried him on all kinds of assignments. As a new broom, he expects to do no drastic sweeping. When asked about his politics, he becomes a bit Socratic. "When you are born in Georgia," he inquires, "what are you usually...
Oldest of Ogontz prizes is the "Whisk-Broom Neatness" award. To girls whose rooms are spick-&-span go silver brooms engraved: "Order is Heaven's first law." This year's 16 whisk-broom winners were applauded by many a broom-winner mother and grandma (80% of the students are related to graduates) in the audience...
...help sweep the dust out of the Foreign Ministry, Paul Reynaud chose a brand-new broom: Paul Baudouin, 45, second from left on TIME'S cover. After a brilliant flying career in World War I, Baudouin picked up some political point ers as private secretary to Finance Minis ters de Monzie, Caillaux, Painleve, Lou-cheur, Doumer. Having married a Ma demoiselle Angoulvant whose father was a high muck-a-muck in Indo-China, he went to work for the Bank of Indo-China, made a beeline for the East. In five years he became general manager. Recently...
...Broom-bearded old Premier Thorvald Stauning announced a survey of Danish cereal stocks, directed that working hours be increased, that spring planting be more intensive. A cheery German radio announcer last week reported that he had visited Copenhagen and seen no melancholy Danes; but observers who had already observed Nazi protection to the south thought he might soon find many...
...without the help of one major G. O. P. figurehead, he entered every primary in sight, met every challenge head on. Last week he pulverized professionals, reduced experts to tears. Expected at best to break even, he swept the Wisconsin primary, using Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg as the broom. In the State where Vandenberg is best known, outside Michigan, Mr. Dewey suddenly became better known. On Wisconsin farms he ran like a prairie fire; in Wisconsin cities he ran like a rumor. Of a possible 24 delegates, he got 24. Mr. Vandenberg's candidacy was dead...