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Chief pooh-pooher of the theory last week was Astronomer Charles Clayton Wylie of the University of Iowa. His big objection: contraterrene material zooming earthward would unite with air, "releasing energy such that a gram of meteorite and air would produce an explosion equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of nitroglycerin. Obviously a meteorite made of contraterrene material would be blown to bits . . . high in the upper air. So the assumption ... is impossible...
...five different drafts of an executive order setting up a U.S. version of Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare. In Washington, where the phrase is already a cliche, three names were mentioned for the Minister's job: Dean Acheson of the State Department, Deputy Loan Administrator Will Clayton, Brigadier General Russell L. Maxwell, now Administrator of Export Control. Biggest question mark was not whether such an order would be signed, but whether the man who runs it will be given any real power. Even if he is not, the job could affect businessmen throughout...
...Count has more punch than most swing bands now making the rounds. The boys didn't play too many popular melodies of the day, as there was an ugly rumor that they were going to do. As usual, most of the arrangements featured a raft of solos, with Buck Clayton and Don Byas, the new tenor sax artist, particularly outstanding. The rhythm section suffered from the absence of Joe Jones from the tympani, which probably disconcerted the boys a bit . . . Decca waited until Muggsy Spanier had left the Bob Crosby band before issuing the first good record the boys made...
...Among names talked of for his successor as RFC chairman Cottonman Will Clayton, under Secretary of Commerce Wayne Chatfield Taylor, Jesse Jones himself...
...Langdon Burwell '41 of Porterville, New York; Clayton J. Clawson '41, of Madera, California; Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, of Excelsior, Minnesota; Roger A. Cunningham '42, of Kent, Ohio; Roger C. Henselman '42, of Medford, Oregon...