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...Algiers, the Committee of Liberation argued long & hotly. The issue: political or military control over a new Commissariat of National Defense. The outcome: dapper, genial General Paul Legentilhomme was appointed to head the Commissariat. Thereby General Giraud won an argument for a military man to run what is in effect a civilian ministry of war. But General de Gaulle also won an argument for putting Army command under Committee authority. And Paul Legentilhomme, a St. Cyr military academy careerist, has been a Gaullist since 1940 and bears the scars of a wound inflicted by Vichyites in Syria...
...dapper, six-foot, sparely built "shouting Baptist," Jimmie Davis owns two redhill farms totaling 450 acres where he raises pecans and about 40 head of cattle. His wife is the touchstone by which Jimmie (who cannot read music) judges his songs. Says he: "When I have thought up a song, I run through it with my wife who's a graduate in piano from Centenary College. If she doesn't like it, it's going to be a smash...
William Christian Bullitt, elegant ex-Ambassador to France, now candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, got into trouble with the city's tax receiver about the city's tax on wages. The dapper diplomat was charged with not filing his returns for 1940, '41 and '42 until last mont, when he reported his three years' wages as 33,535.14 and paid a tax of $108.94. The tax man had wanted to hear more about the ambassadorial expenses for which Bullitt had claimed deductions, but had been reminded that all the embassy records were destroyed when...
...some of the new facts, Curtiss' dapper president, Guy Warner Vaughan, was hard put to find answers. He admitted to the Committee that he had not been aware of many of the faults which the investigators had spaded up at Lockland, that "we weren't doing a job in some respects." He felt the production slump was caused by the reorganization the plant, was undergoing to eliminate the bad spots...
...Tape. To handle contract terminations, the Army now has dapper, red-tape-hating Brigadier General Albert Jesse Browning. AI Browning left his $40,000-a-year job as president of Chicago's United Wallpaper, Factories, in 1941, to earn $1 a year with OPM. Later he joined SPAB, did plenty of the spade work converting U.S. industry to war. Before he went to Washington, he had converted a good chunk of his own plant...