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Joseph Clark Baldwin, dapper socialite New York Congressman, made a straight-faced proposal that U.S. film actors be "lend-leased" to Europe to re-educate the enemy: "Overnight they would be able to do more good in inspiring confidence in the Nazi and Fascist-trained youth of Europe than all of the unknown professional educators we are now contemplating sending abroad...
...Hjalmar Schacht, onetime wizard Minister of Nazi Economics and President of the Reichsbank. He was discovered in a little Italian village, dapper and professing not to know why he had lost favor with Hitler...
...that will shift the bulk of General Eisenhower's fighting men to the Pacific and the command of General MacArthur. But it was far enough along to require the full-time attention of a major general. The man assigned to superintend the greatest moving day in history was dapper, schoolmasterish Major General Royal B. Lord of the Corps of Engineers...
John D. Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller Sr. was "still a dapper, youngish man with cordial American manners," when Santayana watched Queen Victoria's Jubilee procession with him. But when Santayana visited his friend Charles Augustus Strong (a Rockefeller son-in-law) at Rockefeller's house in Lakewood, N.J., the tycoon had aged, lost his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, and wore a pepper & salt wig decidedly too small for him. Rockefeller asked him the population of Spain. When Santayana replied 19 million, the old man said thoughtfully, "I must tell them at the office that they...
With a whoop and a holler, the packing industry last week launched an all-out attack on the Office of Price Administration's price ceilings. Up before the Senate's Agriculture and Forestry Committee, which is probing the meat shortage, stepped dapper, sandy-haired Wilbur Laroe, spokesman for the 700 companies in the National Independent Meat Packers Association. Said Mr. Laroe: the OPA is largely to blame for the meat shortage because it has followed a "social philosophy which regards profits...