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Died. William James Filbert, 78, legendary senior director of U.S. Steel; in Manhattan. The bald, keen-eyed master statistician, known as the world's richest clerk, succeeded Myron C. Taylor as chairman of Steel's finance committee (1934), was succeeded by Edward Riley Stettinius...
...play, which ambles up-country through several months of the North African campaign, accumulates neither meaning nor suspense. Nor can it hold up as straight reporting, for most of it is purpled by the storybook struggle between a U.S. top sergeant (Myron McCormick) and a titled British captain (Bramwell Fletcher) over an Australian nurse. The captain is out of a Punch cartoon, the girl just out of this world. In the end, while Stukas blaze overhead, the proud peer gamely reads the marriage service over the girl and the better...
...last week the unsavory cases at the Michigan air base were concluded. The court ordered a dishonorable discharge for Master Sergeant Myron B. Collins. The charge: accepting bribes for his "influence and action" on improper enlistments and transfers. He also got prison time: 18 months' confinement at hard labor. Collins, 37, eleven years an enlisted man, had testified against his superiors in the previous cases. Said he ruefully when he heard the sentence: "Wasn't that a dandy...
...blood of American youth to be shed for the ideals of Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson or for those of the British Tories, the American steel tycoon, Mr. Myron Taylor, and the Fascisl bishops of Detroit and Brooklyn...
Bradley Bigelow, Milton Nathan Binder (Sconomics), John Benjamin Bowman, Peter Rodgers Chase (Classics), Herbert Church, Jr. (History), Lawrence Edward Cooke (Area of Social Science), John Edward Corrigan, Jr. (History and Literature), Arthur Louis Eno, Jr. (Classics), Myron Earl Freedman (Psychology), Willard Max Gentry, Jr. (Chemistry...