Word: harrington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then there's John (Just-Call-Mepete) Harrington who would be a helluva story if he'd only talk for publication like he's scuttlebutted to talk in the privacy of almost anybody's quarters. John is an ex-G-Man, but when "grilled" about it he just says, "no thanks, old man, I never did go for that publicity stuff," and then turns on that "Jimmy Durante" smile...
Other staff appointees include Donald M. Blinken, Assistant Photography Chairman, Robert J. Harrington, Circulation Manager; Norbert S. Jacker, Assistant Advertising Manager; Alfred J. Pugliese, Secretary; and Richard B. Steuer, Assistant Advertising Manager...
Slow Torture. Now a lieutenant colonel, Abbott Harrington Burns was only a month away from a construction clerk's job with an Arizona telephone company when he was assigned to a Fire Direction Center team at Fort Sill, Okla., in mid-November 1940. In self-defense against slow torture from intricate mathematics, Harry Burns one night experimented with a homemade paper slide rule. Most officers were unimpressed. But one major, George V. Keyser (now a brigadier commanding the 74th Field Artillery in Mississippi), saw the potentialities of Burns's Graphical Firing Table...
...home front. His constituents, he learned, take for granted that Franklin Roosevelt will run for a Fourth Term and they will vote against him, no matter how the war is going. In his talks to luncheon clubs and his chats in the lobby of Port Huron's Harrington Hotel, paunchy, round-faced Jesse Wolcott found that his people favor price control, though they feel it has been terribly mismanaged; and feel that agriculture is being regimented instead of regulated. They are also against a sales...
...Four Freedoms-Rockwell woke with a start at 3, full of ideas. He managed to stay in bed till 5; then he was up and busy with sketches. He called in Neighbor Carl Hess; Hess stood for the shy, brave young workman of Freedom of Speech. A Mrs. Harrington became the devout old woman in Freedom of Worship. A Jim Martin appears in all four posters. All told, the job took seven months...