Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale was still without a coach. Columbia's able Lou Little was all set to take the job, but changed his mind this week. Why? He had just heard from General Ike Eisenhower, Columbia's president-elect. Said Ike to Lou: "You fit into my plans...
...Thomas Parran, able Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service for the past twelve years, once called his job "the most important public health position in the world, present or prospective." More than any other one man, Dr. Parran was responsible for breaking the taboo against using the words syphilis and gonorrhea in public (TIME, Oct. 26, 1936). By research and by blunt publicity campaigns, he led an anti-VD fight that has brought both syphilis and gonorrhea under more effective control...
Parran's successor is tall, soft-spoken Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, 41, head of the National Cancer Institute, career man in the PHS and an Assistant Surgeon General (one of eight). Dr. Scheele takes over his "most important position" on April...
Last week Forbes published the results. The two Charles E. Wilsons (no kin) who boss General Motors Corp. and General Electric Co. flunked the test, along with six other corporation presidents.* They did not answer Benson. But the rest all passed handsomely. Benson even got two to agree with him. Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s Guy W. Vaughan and Sinclair Oil Corp.'s Harry F. Sinclair reported that they had already cut their salaries. Republic Steel Corp.'s Charles M. White, who makes $200,000 a year, made no such concession. Said he: "I have no intention...
Died. Major General James Edmond Fechet (rhymes with O'Shea), U.S.A. (ret.), 70, second chief of the Army Air Corps (1927-31); after long illness; in Washington. Old Cavalryman Fechet rose from the ranks, switched to the infant air force in 1917, returned from retirement to active duty to run the Army Air Forces Promotion Board during World...