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Died. George A. Richards, 62, stormy petrel of radio broadcasting, whose station license renewals in Cleveland, Detroit and Los Angeles are still pending with the Federal Communications Commission because of ex-employees' charges that he slanted news broadcasts, instructed commentators to speak only ill of Democrats, Jews and the Franklin Roosevelt family; of an arterial disease; in Detroit...
Professor Wiener is a stormy petrel (he looks more like a stormy puffin) of mathematics and adjacent territory. A rarity among scientists, he is willing & able to talk intelligently on almost any subject. Wiener got interested in computing machines while doing war work on gun-pointing mechanisms. His wide-ranging interests (too widely ranging, some of his detractors think) saw in them qualities and possibilities that more practical men had missed...
Tall, gimlet-eyed, Alabama-born J.Frank Norris, 69, rejoices in his ecclesiastical reputation as the "stormy petrel of the Southwest," and sees to it that the description keeps up-to-date. In his church study at Fort Worth in 1926, the Rev. Mr. Norris killed an unarmed political enemy by shooting him four times in the belly and was acquitted on grounds of self-defense...
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the stormy petrel of polio, had a new complaint. She swooped with angry cries on the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The Foundation, she thinks, falsely claims (in the literature announcing the 1944-45 March of Dimes) that it supports her work...
...stormy petrel of the U.S. foreign service got a new job last week. To fill a part of the expanding diplomatic gap left by the Phillips resignation (see The Presidency), the State Department hurriedly appointed Career Diplomat Robert Daniel Murphy, 49, as political adviser to General Eisenhower. Bob Murphy, who had the game kind of job when General Eisenhower invaded North Africa, will have the rank of ambassador. He will deal primarily with problems of German occupation...