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...most important Men Around the President are Harold Smith and Wayne Coy. The two men, little known to the U.S. because newsmen respect their "passion for anonymity," serve the President directly as general managers...
...Wayne Coy, now Smith's assistant, had served for a year as liaison man for the mysterious, jack-of-all-trades Office of Emergency Management. He was the man who untangled Lend-Lease to Russia when the knots were tight, who helped steer the property-requisitioning bill through Congress, helped bring C.I.O. and A.F. of L. together when John L. Lewis' "peace offer" threatened civil war in labor...
Although one of Hollywood's almost unbearably beautiful young males, Victor Mature, plays the Dresser role, he is generally bearable. Whenever he gets coy, out of character and into fatuity, Director Irving Cummings distracts attention from him with a mighty pretty red herring: beauteous Rita Hayworth, who, in Technicolor, singing and dancing her way through eight melodies, is enough to raise hair on the boys in baldhead...
...Amazing Executive." With OEM's Wayne Coy holding the dustpan, Judge Rosenman went to work with his broom. In spite of the gestures of hydra-handed Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones (among many other things, administrator of housing loans), the Judge swept up the 16 Federal agencies. Mr. Roosevelt announced last week that the mess was cleaned...
...Three Motorcycles." The top organization, Office for Emergency Management, was aptly described by Washington News Columnist Richard F. Scholz as "President Roosevelt, Wayne Coy and three motorcycles." OPM, the great factory whose most famed product is bottlenecks and coordinators, was in almost mortal combat with OPACS-merely over method. OPM and Lend-Lease Administration were fighting fiercely over jurisdiction. OPM and the Army were scrapping about ordnance; the Army and Lend-Lease were at loggerheads over which should get the produced planes, tanks, guns, etc. OPM and the Office of Civilian Defense were at odds; the State Department wrestled with...