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...Washington term for the academicians who used to be called "brain-trusters" is "slide-rule boys." Last week the slide-rule boys were engaged in a struggle for survival with a man fresh to the capital-Lou Russel Maxon, second-in-command to Prentiss Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADMINISTRATION: Slide-Rulers v. Maxon | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Salesman. Prentiss Brown's second major deputy is big, genial Lou Russel Maxon, who built up Maxon, Inc. of Detroit from a nickel-&-dime business into one of the foremost U.S. advertising agencies. He has the job of making the people love the price policy. Brown and Maxon went to work to humanize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New OPA | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...homemaker's point of view; into OPA policymaking, Maxon chose as his assistant an American housewife, Mrs. Philip L. Crowlie of Huron, S.D., a smalltown clubwoman, mother of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New OPA | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...received official word that Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright, Commander of Corregidor, is imprisoned on Formosa with twelve other U.S. generals: Major Generals Edward King Jr., George F. Moore, George M. Parker Jr., Brigadier Generals Lewis C. Beebe, Clifford Bluemel, William E. Brougher, Charles C. Drake, Arnold J. Funk, Maxon S. Lough, Allan C. McBride, Clinton A. Pierce, James R. N. Weaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Those Inscrutable Japs | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

Died. Sergeant James Matthew Maxon Jr., 33, son of the Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee; in a plane crash during a test flight; "somewhere in England." A bomber and rear-gunner in the R.C.A.F., he had made several flights over Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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