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...recall that several weeks ago I told you about TIME'S Mexico City bureau's man-of-all-work, whose kind is familiar to journalists every where and whose valuable know-how makes him - in many ways - journalism's indispensable man. He has opposite numbers in TIME'S other bureaus overseas...
...time he took over as CAB chairman, Jim Landis had built up a solid reputation as a crack administrator, fair & square. (He also has a redoubtable reputation as a bridge and poker player.) What he lacked was aviation know-how. Some of the CAB veterans supplied that. Colonel Clarence M. Young, 57, CAB's technical expert and onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, is a top man. Oswald Ryan, 58, another Harvard lawyer and one of the original members of the board, is CAB's legalist, steady, if not brilliant. Harllee Branch, 67, a onetime Washington correspondent...
Ralph got his know-how the hard way. His Spanish-born parents died a few years after their arrival in Mexico City (where Ralph was born in 1908), and, at the age of ten, Ralph turned up in Shreveport, La., having gone along with a Mexican family just for the ride. He did odd jobs, went to public school, drove a taxi, saw the country, became an auto body finisher in Detroit - until his employers found where all the nicks were coming from - and topped off the U.S. phase of his career one night by leading Detroit...
...Britain has a lot of industrial know-how. Americans who think they have a national copyright on that term would do well to abandon the illusion. Britain has tangible industrial resources. Not all plants are worn out. Not all management is behind the times. Britain is not literally broke...
...atomic explosives, but will concentrate on making nuclear physics benefit humanity. But the project will do no harm to the national war potential. Atomic secrets (if any still exist) may yet leak or be rediscovered abroad. The job of Brookhaven and other U.S.-sponsored laboratories is to develop atomic know-how so fast that the U.S. lead cannot be overtaken...