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Divorced. By beauteous Nina Gore Vidal Auchincloss, 38, daughter of ex-Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, ex-wife of Eugene L. Vidal, former Bureau of Air Commerce chief: Hugh D. Auchincloss, 44, Washington and Manhattan broker; in Reno...
...setting up a new Conservation Bureau, Judge Samuel Rosenman last week virtually completed his reorganization of U.S. defense (TIME, Sept. 8). The new unit, part of the Office of Production Management, will replace numerous conservation agencies now scattered through Washington, will have full charge of eliminating frills on civilian goods and stopping waste of scarce materials...
Chosen as head of the bureau-on rec ommendation of Donald Nelson,* head of the Supply Priorities & Allocations Board -was Nelson's old private-industry boss: ex-Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Shy, esthetic Lessing Rosenwald retired in 1939, since has administered his philanthropies (including the noted Rosenwald Fund started by his father) and pursued his hobby of collecting etchings. Last summer he went to Washington as head of OPM's commodity section on silk. He was once a member of the America First Committee and an outspoken Willkie supporter in the last campaign...
...Bill Knudsen knew nothing about the Conservation Bureau until its organization was complete...
Super markets will have gross sales this year of about $2,000,000,000 - 22% of all U.S. retail food sales. This is the estimate presented last week by the U.S. Census Bureau's John Guernsey to a Philadelphia convention of the Super Market Institute (owners of more than 1,000 markets). How much larger a chunk of the nation's food bill super markets might eventually get, no one could guess. The U.S. had 9,250 super markets at year's beginning, has 10,100 now, is getting more all the time...