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By 1939, the world crisis began to overshadow all else in the Russian mind. For the key job in the Foreign Commissariat, Stalin picked his top trouble shooter, Molotov. This was more than a change of faces in Narkomindel (Foreign Office). It was an about-face in Russian policy, from...
Tough, bulky Bill Jeffers, who took over his job knowing nothing about rubber, proved that he knew how to get things done. Two-thirds of the proposed synthetic-rubber plants, his office announced, are already in operation or ready for operation. The rest will have been completed by late October...
6) Army General Rodion Malinovsky, co-captor of Kharkov. At 44, this stocky, Odessa-born general is a veteran of much bloodshed. In World War I he fought in France beside American troops. In World War II he achieved a major triumph by crushing the Wehrmacht's desperate attempt...
Surprising was the word for it. The 62nd National Lawn Tennis Championships, which promised to be a bust, turned out to be a pretty good show-largely because several top-ranking players in uniform wangled unexpected furloughs* and played unexpectedly good tennis. One of them, Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer, played...
Burly, two-fisted, plain-spoken Carroll Duard Alcott, 42, started it. Before he joined Cincinnati's WLW at Pearl Harbor time, Alcott was renowned throughout the Far East for his spade-calling broadcasts from Shanghai. Almost every time he opened his mouth Tokyo clenched its little fists.