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Nebraska's G.O.P. candidate for governor was a World War II veteran with an impressive Scandinavian name: Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson. As a lieutenant colonel of the Army Air Forces, 42-year-old Val Peterson spent 24 months in the CBI Theater, supervised air-freight movements over the Hump into China. But unlike many other veteran candidates, he was no newcomer to state politics, nor did he wave the bloody shirt...
Technical men, not brawny wildcatters, are the new glamor boys of the oil industry. This week sprawling Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) underlined this fact when it upped Chemist-Engineer Robert Erastus Wilson, 51, to its board chairmanship (vacant since 1929). Wilson knows better than anyone else in Standard how to crack the last salable product out of a gallon of crude oil. To make sure that Wilson will have enough crude to work on, Standard also upped Geologist Alonzo William Peake, a director, to the presidency, to succeed retiring President Edward Seubert. Eugene Holman, president of Standard...
...Dixie's boss is bespectacled, pipe-smoking Raymond Erastus Hart, 47. Smart Mr. Hart learned the grocery business while traveling about Michigan opening new stores for giant Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. He also learned that the way of the small town independent grocer is hard, and decided to stay out until he had a saving trick up his sleeve. Last February, he cannily foresaw the strict rationing ahead, and guessed that coupon-confused housewives would give a rib-cracking welcome to an old-fashioned grocery store, where there was no such vexing thing as "points...
...somewhat-more-than-mighty vision of a 19th-Century American patriot was put on display last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The vision was a Historical Monument of the American Republic as beheld in fantasy and painted about 1876 by Erastus Salisbury Field...
...Erastus Salisbury Field wrote a twelve-page description of his vast architectural dream. In it he declared: "I am not a professed architect, and some things about it may be faulty. Be that as it may, my aim has been to get up a brief history of our country or epitome, in a monumental form. . . . The towers are connected with suspension bridges, and the cars are going to and from the centennial exhibition, which is on the top of the central tower...