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Into the Sanctum. Soon to be unveiled by circumstance, New Jersey Zinc has grown big on strict attention to business and a devout policy of the less said the better. For decades its stockholder reports have been dull, stereotyped affairs with a peek at quarterly earnings; its reams of trade publicity have never given a hint of production, sales or industry position; its prim officers never discuss anything not already in print. The company's practical downtown Manhattan offices are pervaded by a churchlike decorum-everyone looks solemn, all men politely remove their hats when a girl gets into...
...Italian chemist and a devout Roman Catholic, Max Jordan got his Ph.D. in religious philosophy at Jena, then got sidetracked into journalism and radio. He scored many radio scoops during ten years as NBC's European chief. He was the first broadcaster from Nazi-occupied Paris, from the Zeppelin Hindenburg over the Atlantic and the first to send the Munich Pact text...
Like the Confederacy's "Stonewall" Jackson and England's Cromwell, he is a devout man himself. Nightly he reads his Bible. He carries with him a copy of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress...
Once, in the old dead days of the isolationist debate, Britain's devout Lord Halifax stopped to chat with an American mother picketing his hotel with an anti-war banner. He listened gravely to her story of her nine sons, said quietly: "I, too, have sons," shook hands, walked...
...foreigners who have seen him remember him best for his "lion's face," his broad and rocky mouth. Like all successful Red Army commanders, he is a professing Communist and (unlike some) he is also a devout one. Said he after the Finnish War: "We would not be Bolsheviks if we allowed the glamor of victory to blind us to the shortcomings that have been revealed in the training of our men. These shortcomings were the result of conventionalism and routine...