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...days later, Prague's rubber-stamp Parliament voted Antonin Zapotocky into the presidency, by a vote of 271 to ). On instructions from the central committee new President Zapotocky appointed as Prime Minister Viliam Siroky, boss of the Slovak party, and, as leader of the party secretariat, another party hack, Antonin Novotny. Since none of the three had any real stature, this seemed to be a stopgap arrangement. It was also a rebuff to Gottwald's ruthless, ambitious, unpopular son-in-law, Alexei Cepicka, Defense Minister who failed to move up an inch. But perhaps Cepicka was a sleeper...
When he retired in 1950, two years after his father's death, his younger brother, Curtis Whittlesey McGraw (Princeton '20), stepped into the job. Still called "Hack" from football days (he captained Princeton's '19 team), burly (6 ft. 2½ in., 210 lbs.) President McGraw, 57, is as gregarious as his brother was reserved, delegates authority to his top aides, Publications Boss Paul Montgomery, Executive Vice President Willard Chevalier, and Editorial Director Smith, lets the magazines run their own shows...
...Hack McGraw subscribes to his father's theory that his "editors must be part of industry before they can be part of the publishing business," would rather hire an engineer and teach him to write than try to make an engineer out of a writer...
Always on the alert for new fields, McGraw-Hill registered the title Atomic Power right after the first atom bomb, now publishes it as Nucleonics, which is still losing money. But the company has had to wait before for a new trade to catch up with its magazine, and Hack McGraw isn't worried. Said he: "It's another stake in the future. We think it will carry itself well when private industry really gets going in atomic energy...
...left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino-haunted woods near famed Treetops Hotel,* saw his old teacher hack off the head of a Kikuyu forest guard with a panga knife. Kimathi tied the severed head to his belt, then loped off into the jungle at the head of his band of 40 Mau Maus. The Kenya government has offered ?500 reward for Kimathi's capture...