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...London, was recalled to switch jobs with Jacob A. Malik, First Deputy Foreign Minister in Moscow. This was the post Gromyko held when he was sent to London last year to relieve Georgy N. Zarubin, now Ambassador to Washington. The new job will make Gromyko once again right-hand helper of Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov and give him, in title at least, equal rank with the other First Deputy, Andrei Vishinsky...
Frozen Mercury. Fred Crawford, civil engineer (Harvard, '14), joined Thompson as a millwright's helper in 1916. Under one of its founders, an ex-welder named Charles E. Thompson, the 15-year old company had already built a tidy business making auto valves. In World War I, its business almost doubled, and Thompson branched into aircraft, making valves for France's Spad fighters. By 1929, when the Thompson Trophy was created for Cleveland's National Air Races, Crawford had moved up to vice president and general manager. At Thompson's death* in 1933, Crawford took...
...present-day night-shift helper is Lewis Erlanson. A jack-of-all-trades, the popular Louie works for the Crime from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. and also is a part-time florist and Stadium program vendor...
Until he was 30, handsome, wavy-haired Dave McDonald hankered to write plays. A parochial school boy, he had gone to work at 15, first as a machinist's helper and later as a clerk in a steel plant office. Phil Murray, then a United Mine Workers' vice president, hired McDonald as private secretary. But all the while he was learning the union ropes, in the tough Appalachian coal districts, Dave studied theater on the side. By 1932, he had won a certificate of graduation from Carnegie Tech's drama school, written a couple...
...most railroaders, gas turbine engines are still too risky a proposition. But U.P.'s board of directors has faith that Stoddard is on the right track. Nebraska-born, Stoddard joined U.P. as a $30-a-month station helper 36 years ago, has been with U.P. ever since, except for stints in both wars. A colonel in World War II, he served as adviser to the Iranian National Railway, which helped carry supplies from the Persian Gulf to Russia. In his 3½ years as U.P. president, the board has let him run things pretty much...