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...beds, an outpatient department and scattered laboratories, where its chief, Dr. Howard Richard Bierman, and a team of a dozen assistants carry on treatment and research. New Jersey-born, St. Louis-trained Dr. Bierman is already a veteran (at 39) of investigation into blood cells, and something of a maverick among leukemia specialists...
Change of Pilots. Martin owes its comeback to George M. (for Maverick) Bunker, a 46-year-old troubleshooter who became president in 1952. Until then all decisions-big and small-were made by Glenn L. Martin, the company's founder, chairman and namesake. But when the company tried to raise new capital from investment bankers three years ago, it was told that the new management would have to come first. The bankers' choice was George Bunker, and his first step was to move Glenn Martin out of the pilot's seat...
...German feeling now being stirred up. Part of it is political: Nye Bevan and his left-wing Socialists are setting up a hue and cry about "Guns for the Huns"-not bothering, of course, to point out that the Communists have already armed East Germany. In Lord Beaverbrook, the maverick Tory press lord, the Socialists have an unexpected ally. His big Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) is so het up that it caricatures Chancellor Adenauer as a Mephistopheles surrounded by Junker (see cut), and not content with whatever debatable influence his editorials have, Beaverbrook has been buying up billboard...
...strategy conceived by Millikin was intended simply to head off the George amendment with a more palatable substitute. The George amendment would drain $2.4 billion from the Treasury; the Millikin amendment would cut Government revenue only $960 million. Much to the distress of the Republicans, the Democrats (joined by Maverick Republican Bill Langer) voted down Millikin's amendment 49-46. Then, much to their own surprise, the Republicans, joined by Virginia's Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, Colorado's Edwin Johnson and Florida's Spessard Holland, defeated the George amendment...
Died. Maury Maverick, 58, dumpy, dynamic Texas Democrat, onetime clean-up mayor of San Antonio (1939-41), two-term U.S. Representative (1935-39); of a heart ailment; in San Antonio. An ardent New Dealer and champion of small business, he nonetheless scorned Washington bureaucratese; once, after scanning a subordinate's report, he gruffly coined a capital classic: "Gobbledygook...