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...California's busiest business men is 25 years old and makes $55 a week as a toolmaker. As a sideline, he grosses an estimated $250,000 a year as a dance-hall impresario. Last week short, dapper Harrison Augustus (Harry) Schooler acquired a new ballroom (his fourth...
...deft and dapper Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, for eleven years Russian Ambassador in London and lately dean of the diplomatic corps at the Court of St. James's, came a puzzling promotion last week. Three weeks after a routine return to Moscow to bring his superiors up to date, it was announced that he had become a Vice Commissar of foreign affairs, would not return to London...
Spongecake & Catsup. The Brown Derby's solvency is due to dapper Robert Howard Cobb, 43, who is often mistaken for Actor William Powell ("I don't think Powell's quite as good an actor as I am"). Bob Cobb has managed the Brown Derby since its opening, is now president and biggest stockholder (cofounders Somborn and Mizner died ten years...
Counter-Blow. Dapper Guy Warner Vaughan, ex-automobile racer who heads giant Curtiss-Wright, answered Truman's attacks: "The P-40 has been continuously modernized, [has] shot down from three to 20 enemy planes for every P-40 lost. . . . The company emphatically denies that Wright has at any time sold products known to the company to have contained defective or substandard parts...
...Giraud "was made on military grounds,'' implied no Anglo-American control over "the political organization." He also contemplated the fact that he was not Commander-in-Chief during General Giraud's absence. That job had been assigned to General Giraud's Army Chief of Staff, dapper General Alphonse Juin...