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...design for future peace moved him a long step from the isolationist thinking that permeated his own party before Pearl Harbor. Last spring he had made a clean break, lined up for U.S. world participation in his book The Problems of a Lasting Peace, jointly written with Diplomat Hugh Gibson (TIME, July 6). Last week, in his speech before the Chicago Executives Club, he was substantially in agreement with the broad world program of men like Sumner Welles, Henry Wallace, Anthony Eden...
...Sturdy little Owen S. Gibson, 69, onetime Chautauqua performer, onetime plumber and builder, used to think that Townsendism was the biggest thing in his life. But now Owen Gibson works at Douglas Aircraft's big Long Beach plant, on a "burr bench," where he files the rough edges off machined airplane parts. Says he: "I haven't been so active in the club since working here. This is all-important-the other isn't so important...
...games are foreign. In Tri-Tactics (which is available in limited quantities in the U.S.) the British have probably the best commercial war game. It combines naval, air and land forces in checker-like movements over a map, and was invented by a British games manufacturer, Harry A. Gibson, of H. P. Gibson & Sons...
...schoolboy in the Grocers Company School in Hackney Downs, London, young Gibson invented perhaps the best of all naval war games, Dover Patrol, in 1911. (It was not manufactured until he was mustered out of the British horse artillery in 1919.) In 1925 Gibson designed Aviation, an excellent air war game, and bought up the rights to a French infantry war game, L'Attaque! In 1932 he put all three together in one package as Tri-Tactics. (Gibson sold a whole set of his war games for use in the wardroom of the lost British battleship H.M.S. Hood.) Twice...
...many ways Billy De Beck lived a life as unreal as the comic-strip characters he fathered. When he was at high school in Chicago he drew imitation Charles Dana Gibson pictures, peddled them for profit. He did cartoons for a theatrical weekly and for several newspapers. But he stayed poor until he turned out a correspondence course on "How to be a cartoonist and make big money." He sold thousands of copies for $1 apiece. He was doing a so-so successful strip, "Married Life," for the Chicago Herald at $35 a week when King Features hired...