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...Tanned, jut-jawed deputy OPAdministrator Chester Bowles strode bravely into Washington. Four hours later, he called in the press. Reporters took a long, sympathetic look at an able new man in a jinxed job. After two years of rationing, OPA was still unworkable, still unlovable. Two former OPA business managers (ex-Administrator Leon Henderson, ex-Deputy Lou Maxon) had charged bravely in, flounced out later, muttering and muttered...
...general manager, Boss Brown drafted tall, jut-jawed Chester Bowles, 42, head of Manhattan's potent advertising firm of Benton & Bowles, Connecticut manager of OPA. Yaleman Bowles was sailing off Cape Cod when his appointment was announced, had to be hunted down and called ashore by the Coast Guard. His experience with the OPA in Connecticut had taught him just how much the public will stand, he said: he would try to do his best...
...John's player who commanded most of the crowd's attention was long-necked, jut-elbowed Center Harry ("Big Boy") Boykoff, 6 ft. 9, the tournament's tallest. When the Big Boy took wing up-court, he looked like a heron in full flight. When it came to playing basketball, there was nothing awkward about Coach Lapchick's team-or about the way Boykoff reached above the basket to bat out opponents' certain scores...
Over the Boise's telephone jut-jawed Captain Edward J. ("Mike") Moron spoke to the spotter in No. 1 position: "How many ships have you spotted...
...That the screened wooden balconies that jut from the walls of old Peruvian palaces in Lima and elsewhere, are patterned after those of East Indian harems...