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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grasp of personnel problems, gave subordinates snappy decisions which constantly left them with an awed "why-didn't-I-think-of-that?" feeling. He handled his bosses with equal ease. The day he learned that peppery Lord Beaverbrook was taking over the Ministry, young Franks mourned to a friend that "that awful little man" would wreck the organization. Then he had a second thought, and added: "I think I'll look into the office over the weekend...
...came under the influence of Friedrich Naumann, long a leader in the German Liberal movement. Heuss met pretty Elly Knapp in the Naumann movement ("If Naumann had turned Buddhist," she said later, "I would have followed him into that, too"). Heuss and Elly were married by their close friend Albert Schweitzer, later to become the great humanitarian missionary and philosopher (TiME, July...
Italian Cinemactress Anna Magnani (Open City), great & good friend of Italian Director Roberto Rossellim until Ingrid Bergman came along, settled down for a short rest after winding up work on her latest movie. Volcano...
...account of those years is the familiar one of War Department myopia, never enough and that too late. Billy Mitchell wanted to bomb Germany, but the U.S. hadn't a single bomber. When Mitchell was court-martialed in 1925 for his obstreperous advocacy of air power, his friend & follower Hap Arnold was sent off to rusticate at Fort Riley. Determined not to quit under fire, Arnold passed up the job as president and general manager of Pan American Airways...
...Best Friend. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Joyce Brainard won her divorce after testifying that when her husband came home at night he kissed the dog before he kissed...