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...dumpy, melon-headed promoter from Manhattan, Frank Cohen, who in 18 months had puffed up a $5,000 investment into an ordnance empire with assets of more than $6,000,000 (TIME, Nov. 3). One was Franklin Roosevelt's old friend Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran. One was a lanky, jug-eared bureaucrat, Charles Franklin West, who no longer has a bureau...
Meanwhile, rich ASCAP decided to split a million-dollar melon (cut largely out of lush past earnings) among its membership for the second quarter of 1941, just to buck up morale...
...blowing hot on the nape of its neck, the Office of Production Management last week revised its organization. It had to. In the six months of its existence, OPM had become hopelessly complicated, endlessly tied up in red tape that grew around its acts like ragweed in a melon patch. Manufacturers seeking to get started on vital contracts had to fight their way through labyrinths of bureaucracy. For any broad-scale ruling they had to go to the purchasing division, then to production, then to priorities. The rulings had to be reconciled. In the process thousands of hours of vital...
...week from 39 hours to 44 at the same pay. ∙∙ Vice President Henry A. Wallace stepped to bat in a charity softball game, nearly swung himself off his feet at a ball three feet wide of the plate, then made a comeback with two hits. ∙∙ Melon-waisted Leon Hender son, who had long hung his thumbs on a low-slung belt, changed to white suspenders, hung his thumbs up three inches higher, pronounced the new arrangement good...
...inquisitive pressmen, Stylist Viereck crooned: "I am not anti-British." In his preface, he grates that Britain's Parliament is "hagridden by a few families welded together by ties of gold and blood," that the Empire is "the greatest graft on earth, the juiciest melon that was ever cut." Since the British aristocracy has long prided itself on providing Britain with leaders the book has no great trouble in elaborating on this theme, adding even a genealogical chart...