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...lawyer, World War II legal adviser to WPB and other boards, now head of NPA, which has the overall job of allocating all materials needed for arms production. Fleischmann's chief aides: LELAND E. SPENCER, 42, vice president of Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. and World War II tire czar, rubber division boss; MARSHALL M. SMITH, 54, former president of E. W. Bliss Co. (machine tools), allocating industrial and construction machinery for defense; DAVID B. CARSON, 60, vice president Of Sharon Steel Corp., channeling iron & steel to arms contractors; WALTER SKUCE, 46, Owens-Corning Fiberglas executive, who helped run World...
...Fringe. Johnston did not capitalize on his political potentialities. In 1945 he settled into the presidency of Hollywood's Motion Picture Association of America as successor to Movie Czar Will Hays. Except for occasional public speeches and a few minor excursions into the headlines when he was involved in complicated movie deals with the British, he seemed content to stay on the fringe of public life...
...Last Second. Other allergies had built up over 5½ years. Club owners could stomach Happy's sonorous ("Ah love baseball") speeches and his bourbon baritone renditions of My Old Kentucky Home, but they found Happy unpalatable whenever he tried to be baseball's "czar" in more than name. The most famous example was Chandler's year-long suspension of Leo Durocher just before opening day, 1947. Other ranklers: the 1949 suspension of Durocher for hitting a fan (later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday...
Born in Russia in 1717, Cozens was either the son of a British shipbuilder at the court of Peter the Great, or the natural son of Czar Peter himself-Cozens' family genealogists differ. He made his reputation in England not as an artist but as an "Instructor in Drawing to the Young Princes" and as the author of such curious treatises as The Principles of Beauty relative to the Human Head and the New Method for assisting the Invention in the Composition of Landscape...
Last week, in a fat, 300-page centennial issue, Harper's published a selection of the reading and illustrations that had made it famed. (It also ran some of the early testimonial ads that had helped pay the way, e.g., "Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, rides a Dayton Bicycle.") The idea of the issue, said Editor in Chief Frederick Lewis (Only Yesterday) Allen, was "to do an historical survey without making it look like an historical survey." Thanks to a careful culling of yellowed Harper's files and a series of essays on the U.S. scene through...