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Joseph T. McNarney, Omar N. Bradley, Walter Krueger, Brehon B. Somervell, Carl Spaatz, George C. Kenney, Mark Clark, Jacob L. Devers, Thomas T. Handy...
Klaxon-voiced New York Auctioneer Jacob Goldberg had had a three-and-a-half-hour grilling by the Mead Committee (formerly the Truman Committee) and he was hopping mad. Finally he stood at bay, angrily accused the investigators of trying to tear down his character, and of tapping the telephone wire of his firm (Surplus Liquidators, Inc., which held a contract to sell some $750,000 worth of Defense Plant Corp. surpluses to the public). Without pausing for breath, he also charged that the Senate's Committee was wasting millions in its investigation of Government surplus property disposal methods...
...Belgium, the Resistance and hunger were behind the crisis. In Maastricht, liberated Holland's biggest city, underground fighters (Stoottroepen, meaning shock troops) charged three prominent citizens with collaboration, clapped them into jail. When Interior Minister Jacob Burger protested against indiscriminate purging, the Stoottroepen of both occupied and liberated Holland forced his resignation...
Student and Stowaway. A meteoric manager, Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz) is a volcanic man. Born in Newark (though he later said he was born in Vienna), he read omnivorously at Yale for two years, then quit. He bummed his way west and then abroad, coming home a stowaway in a tramp steamer. Home now meant Broadway. Harris became a press agent for the Shuberts and "stamped and cried with rage" at the way his bosses butchered scripts. When he had saved up $3,000 he started producing...
...their joint task Jacob was the indefatigable collector, Wilhelm the devoted editor. But the purpose of both was to preserve intact the rhythms and patterns of a primitive, oral literature. Their first publication, in 1805, was a collection of folk songs, Des Knaben Wunderhorn. The following year Napoleon overran Westphalia. Jacob, who spoke French, got a clerkship in the war office and in 1808 was appointed superintendent of King Jerome Buonoparte's private library. The job assured the brothers an income with which to continue their life work...