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Washington believed that General Dwight Eisenhower was (at long last) about to be officially named head of Western European defense, that his chief of staff would be the Army's top planner, scholarly Lieut. General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther. Eisenhower's appointment was long overdue. A meeting of the twelve North Atlantic Treaty Foreign Ministers was scheduled for Brussels about Dec. 20, to seek agreement on German arming. This would give Secretary of State Dean Acheson a chance-if he wanted one-to prod the European governments into speed. So far, the Europeans who had been moaning that...
...York City was all set to start on its new $511,607,630 school-expansion program (TIME, July 31), but last week President Maximilian Moss of the Board of Education marched before the City Planning Commission with an afterthought. In view of the world situation, Moss said, the Board of Education recommended the construction of built-in atomic bomb shelters in each new school. Estimated extra cost: $50 million. The Planning Commission was thinking it over...
Miss Brucher's career started with a doctor's degree under a Nobel prize winner at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Government is her main interest and she finds Littauer "intellectually stimulating." Following up her class work she has interviewed Boston mayorality candidates and investigated the Cambridge city-manager government; with possible recall to her council chair a constant threat she is jamming her time with activities...
...Locomotive God. Loewy first dreamed of building cars and locomotives in Paris, where he was born and spent the first 26 years of his life. His father, Maximilian, was a Viennese journalist; his mother, Marie Labalme, a sturdy Frenchwoman who prodded her children by continually telling them: "Better to be envied than pitied." Young Raymond, the third of three sons, filled his school notebooks with so many sketches of locomotives, automobiles and airplanes that his parents sent him to engineering school...
...British father and a French mother, Monsieur Henri was born Henry Hutchinson in Paris 42 years ago. He came to Mexico in 1942 and set up shop as Henri de Chatillon, hatmaker, in the Reforma mansion that had once housed Emperor Maximilian's mistress. His first hats were as fantastic as they were expensive, and sold like hot cakes. Often they really were hot cakes: Chatillon found that steaming Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap...