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Frederick Searls Jr., 53, a top-drawer mining engineer whose work has taken him to most of the strange, out-of-the-way places which are today's battlefronts. Melancholy, laconic Engineer Searls, who deceptively resembles ineffectual Comedian Victor Moore, was recommended for a defense job by Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch. He began building ammunition plants for the British Purchasing Commission, switched to Army Ordnance. When he began, Searls knew nothing about ammunition except that it was supposed to explode. Now he knows so much that the Army refused to give him up to Nelson, insisted that...
Other members were all top-drawer officers: Major General Frank Ross McCoy, bemedaled World War I troop commander and diplomat; Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, World War I airman, General Staffer on War Plans; Admiral William Harrison Standley, dynamic onetime Chief of Naval Operations; Rear Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, ex-CINCUS. (All but McNarney are retired officers...
With the House still on vacation, Leon Henderson's price control bill still gathered dust in a drawer last week. But prices gathered neither dust nor moss...
...Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and British Foreign Secretary of the 1920s, must have shivered in its shroud. Founded in 1757, St. James's is famed for its claret, its caricatures by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the exclusiveness of its membership, mostly confined to diplomats from the topmost social drawer. A Tsarist prince once lost ?10,000 in its card rooms. Last week's tradition-shattering new member was short, thick, athletic Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, 57, Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, whose moon face, chuckling dark eyes and ragged imperial whiskers make him look...
...Washington, onetime Commercial Artist William B. Phillips of Office of Emergency Management's Information Division, with the aid of N. W. Ayer's Art Director Charles Coiner, had rounded up 24 of the top-drawer U.S. postermen, had already finished two nifty jobs for OPM. Adviser Coiner (who designed NRA's Blue Eagle) did the first one; the other was by Jean Carlu, famed one-armed French posterman, now in the U.S., whose mural blandishments on behalf of French railways were once widely known and chuckled at in France...