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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meat & Drink. Shrewd, hard-bitten Bill Boyle believes in machine politics and the everlasting value of the faithful ward-heeler. He was a precinct captain himself before he could vote, rose through the ranks of the Boss Pendergast machine to acting director of police (TIME, Feb. 21). In 1941, Senator Harry Truman appointed him to the counsel staff of his war investigating committee, later made him his personal secretary. Last year Boyle plotted Truman's whistle-stop campaign, insisted on going after what proved to be the decisive farm and labor vote. An Irish-Catholic politician...
...fingers in a lot of pies. In Houston, he is vice president of the Canada Dry Bottling Co. (where Pitcher Ted Wilks works in the off-season), general manager of an insurance company (which employs Pitcher Pollet part time), co-owner of a realty company and a director of the North Side State Bank...
George Harold Edgell spends his working hours in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, of which he is director. In his spare time, spruce, 62-year-old Edgell practices a rare and, he fears, a vanishing skill: hunting the wild bee.* Last week, in a pithy little book, The Bee Hunter (Harvard University Press; $2.50), he let the rest of the U.S. in on his secrets...
...dispense this capsule advice, Producer Irving Mansfield (Talent Scouts') engaged Critic Clifton Fadiman as moderator, and Comic Abe Burrows and Playwright-Director George S. Kaufman (The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It With You) for permanent panel members. Right from the start it became embarrassingly clear that the problems of most entertainers could be solved more readily with a grain of aspirin than with a pound of prosy counsel. On the opening show, Bandleader Artie Shaw departed from his script to remark: "My problem is that I haven't any problem...
Divorced. Otto L. (for Ludwig) Preminger, 42, Vienna-born Broadway actor-director (Margin for Error, 1939) and Hollywood producer (Laura); by Marion Mill Preminger, 39, onetime Hungarian actress; after 18 years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...