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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Mansure cast a baleful eye on leaky water faucets and warned: "A dripping faucet [wastes] 30? a month." Wastebaskets also caught his eye. Wrote Mansure: "When papers have missed the wastebasket and desks are littered, the cleaning operation takes as much as 75% more time per unit cleaned." His newest order: "Keep your desk neat, and your aim at the wastebasket true...
...MacArthur's most devoted staffers, German-born General Willoughby* used to keep a whole shelf of books about his chief behind his desk in 1944 at advanced headquarters in the New Guinea jungle. After World War II, his Tokyo staff prepared an elaborate history of MacArthur's exploits at which Army department historians were not allowed a peek. These "MacArthur histories" provide the basis for the best part of this unevenly documented book. Willoughby is happiest describing the Southwest Pacific campaigns in which MacArthur was so magnificently right, advancing by more than 100 amphibious landings to his promised...
Disappointed Hostesses. When Dulles got back to Washington last week from his travels in the Pacific (TIME. Sept. 20). he had no notion of taking off again for a while. But on his desk he found a three-page cable from Britain's Anthony Eden, reporting his progress in seeking a substitute for EDC and suggesting a nine-power conference this week in London (see FOREIGN NEWS). Dulles' advance man in Europe, Deputy Under Secretary Robert Murphy, sent word recommending a quick firsthand look at the European situation. Dulles decided to go at once. With characteristic speed...
Back to his Washington desk hobbled Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey, with a game leg for the second time this year. Last Easter Humphrey tore the muscles above his left ankle when his horse kicked him. Then he sprained the same ankle while walking on his Ohio farm. Just to keep the ankle out of trouble while Humphrey's schedule is so tight, doctors this time put foot and ankle in a cast, gave the Secretary a cane for support...
When Small Business Administrator Wendell B. (for Burton) Barnes, 45, was vacationing with his wife and four children near Jacksonville, Fla. a fortnight ago, Hurricane Carol began kicking up off the Florida coast. Right away, Barnes packed his family into the car and headed north. He reached his desk just in time. One of Barnes's major tasks is to make emergency loans in disaster areas. The morning after Carol smashed across the New England coast, Barnes declared disaster areas in six states (New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine...