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...unravel Brewster's main financial tangle: a stockholders' suit claiming that the corporation had been milked by three supersalesmen who took enormous commissions on foreign war contracts that Brewster would have got anyway. The salesmen: the brothers Alfred J. and Ignacio J. Miranda, and their partner, Felix William Zelcer. The settlement: the trio got clear title to $2,800,000 in commissions already paid them, to $800,000 they were paid as brokers on accessory sales, and to $500,000 of the $2,300,000 still due them...
...English for two years, and then joined the Atlantic staff. In those days the self-assured calm of the monthly had not attained the heroic proportions that recently made a semi-scandal out of color-of-cover innovations. Morrison indirectly participated in three memorable episodes when the Atlantic published Felix Frankfurter's Sacco-Vanzetti case analysis that stirred up a new trial, copious New Salem Lincolniana that later proved completely "cooked up," and Al Smith's "hot" literary rebuttal to a challenge of his right to run for governor that was stolen in the proof sheets and published prematurely...
...includes many peacetime instrumental stars: Benny Goodman's bass fiddler Artie Bernstein; 20th Century-Fox's concertmaster Felix Slatkin; Hal Kemp's ace trumpeter Mickey Bloom; Paramount's concertmaster Harry Bluestone (Master Sergeant Harry B. Blostein); Harry James's first trombonist Hoyt Bohannon; Toscanini's NBC cellist Edgar Lustgarten; Benny Goodman's hot trumpeter Manny Klein...
Thus Lieut. Colonel Felix Hardison, 31-year-old pilot of the Suzy-Q, won his ninth decoration. Staff Sergeant Kenneth Gradle of St. Louis, 2 2-year-old radioman on the plane that flew MacArthur out of the Philippines, received his eighth award, became the U.S.'s most decorated enlisted hero (he already wore the D.F.C. with oak leaf cluster, the silver star with two oak leaf clusters, the Purple Heart with one). Sergeant Gradle had flown on 60 missions, more than any other man in the 19th, and shot down six Zeros-more than enough to call himself...
First full colonel among the 19th's pilots is 29-year-old Richard Carmichael, the group's commander until it was relieved, now a bombardment officer on Lieut. General ("Hap") Arnold's staff. A sure bet to get a colonel's eagles was Felix Hardison, assigned as operations officer of General Olds's Second Air Force Bomber Command. Lieut. Colonel Ted Faulkner, already assigned to a Kansas air base, and Lieut. Colonel James Connally, assigned to a bombardment tactics school in Florida, were also in line for higher rank. Many enlisted men were being commissioned...