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...urging, Charlie Wilson took on the job of chief U.S. Defense Mobilizer in December 1950, confident that he knew a thing or two about wartime Washington. After two years on Franklin Roosevelt's mobilization staff, he was wise to the perils of palace politics and political hatchet work. But in Harry Truman's Washington he was soon completely at sea in leaderless confusion. Last week, in a blunt letter to the President (written the day before Truman bowed out as a candidate), Charlie Wilson abruptly quit...
...problem to Abner. During an economy drive on the police force, Fosdick was told by his chief that unless he married, he would be axed along with all the other bachelors. Since a "scientific aptitude test" proved Detective Fosdick too stupid for any other job, he grudgingly married his hatchet-faced girl friend Prudence ("ugh!") Pimpleton.* Abner, true to his pledge, had to follow suit. However, he was so confident a miracle would save him that he did not even bother to get out of bed on the morning when Daisy Mae breathlessly held him to his promise...
Last December, he was in Helsinki to see the Finnish metalworkers vote to quit the W.F.T.U., as top Soviet union officials looked on. The night before the vote, Koushkin, the head of the Soviet Metalworkers Union, had a drink with Brown, suggested they bury the hatchet. "O.K.." snapped Brown. "You make your revolution against Vishinsky, and I'll make one against Acheson." Koushkin walked away, drink unfinished...
School for Democracy The hatchet-faced little man known as Fritz Roessler disappeared in the rubble of the defeated Third Reich. A street corner no-good until he joined Hitler's brownshirts, he rose in Nazi favor by cultivating a Fuhrer mustache and showing a high talent for defiling Jewish graves. He became a captain in the German army, and Nazi propaganda boss in the state of Saxony...
Died. Harold Leclair Ickes, 77, self-styled "Old Curmudgeon," longtime New Deal hatchet man and Franklin D. Roosevelt's only Secretary of the Interior (1933-46); of complications from arthritis; in Washington, D.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...