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...sponsored by Willard Monroe Kiplinger, publisher of the businessmen's weekly tip sheet, the Kiplinger Washington Letter. The statues are one-third life size, cast in bronze. They have been given to Washington's venerable Smithsonian Institution for permanent public exhibition. Some other sitters: Henry Wallace, Harlan F. Stone, George Marshall, Harry Hopkins, Francis Biddle, Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, Walter Lippmann, John L. Lewis, Donald Nelson. Says Sponsor Kiplinger: "The purpose is primarily historical . . . history is made by men. What did the men look like? How did they stand? What shape of heads? This collection will give...
Sirs: THEY HAVE BARBECUED .THE MAN THAT KILLED THE PIG. HARRY M. BENNETT Harlan...
...idea of giving biographees a chance to defend themselves publicly came to Look's Editor Harlan Logan when he bought a manuscript from Reporter-Author Leland Stowe titled Roy Howard, Newspaper Napoleon. Logan sent it to Scripps-Howard's Howard for checking, got it back with marginal notes that disagreed with Stowe on several points. One Howard comment: "Napoleon, huh? Nap was a little runt and I'm nearly 5 feet 7 inches! He had a cowlick and I still have a pompadour...
...objected because the decision still left Northwest wide open to taxation by other states. Then he politely argued against "judicial formulation of general rules" (i.e., legislative acts by the courts) in a tax area in which Congress has not legislated. In this, they were joined by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone in the dissenting opinion...
Without even a sidelong political glance, Franklin Roosevelt nominated for Secretary of the Navy the brisk and efficient Under Secretary, James Vincent Forrestal (TIME, May 15). Not since 1941, when he elevated Harlan Fiske Stone to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was there such unanimous approval of a Presidential appointment. Press, public and the Navy cheered. The President had infused his official family with able young blood. The addition of Jimmy Forrestal, 52, lowers the average age of the Roosevelt Cabinet from 63.7 to 61.9 years...