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International's production boss is round-faced, even-tempered William Goetz, 42, who did a bang-up job of running 20th Century-Fox while Darryl Zanuck was a colonel in the Army. After making the Academy Award picture, The Song of Bernadette, Goetz quit in a huff when Zanuck returned and began acting like a "little colonel" around the studio. Goetz approached dark, dapper Leo Spitz, 57, Hollywood's legal and financial know-it-all. A boy wonder (he earned his Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees before he was 21), Spitz masterminded the reorganization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Glad Hands Across the Sea | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...reason for both parties was Colonel McCormick's 65th birthday. He reached the milestone looking like a man who could continue to steer the vast and noisy Tribune on its huff-puffing course for years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel & His Friends | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...this was" a guess. The President had dropped no hint of what he planned, and neither had canny, sharp-eyed Jimmy Byrnes himself. But there was plenty of reason for believing that Byrnes, who had resigned a few days before Franklin Roosevelt's death (partly because of a huff over the three-votes-for-Russia deal at Yalta), was going back to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What for Jimmy? | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Married. Niles Trammell, 50, shrewd, soft-spoken president of the National Broadcasting Co.; and Cleo Allen Black, 41; both for the second time; in Queenstown, Md., one week after his Reno divorce from Elizabeth Ruth Huff Trammell, 42 (alimony: $1,000 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Sister Kenny ascribes her present huff to three new indignities: 1) no research men have come to the Elizabeth Kenny Institute in Minneapolis to study her methods; 2) the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis refused to give her as much money for research as she thinks she needs ($840,000); 3) her permit to stay in the U.S. will expire in May; to stay on she must apply for a renewal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sister Kenny Fights On | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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