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...cornmittee are: Labor-Relations Expert John Bugas, onetime director of the FBI's Detroit office and now the company's No. 2 policymaker; black-haired, gruff Mead L. Bricker, the production boss who "saved" Willow Run; John R. Davis, the cheerful, shrewd boss of sales and advertising; pint-sized R. H. McCarroll, now executive engineer but chief chemical engineer for 22 of the 30 years he has been with the corporation; Secretary Herman Moekle; Treasurer B. J. Craig and Purchasing Agent Charles Carroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Young Henry Takes a Risk | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Founded in '76, Reborn in '48" is the motto that adorned the old Daily Princetonian banner when Nassau's undergraduate journalists changed the name of the wartime Bulletin January 5. Since September, when students began to expand the pint-sized news letter, the thrice-weekly sheet has amassed 57 progenitors, 17 of whom are executives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '46 Eleven to Face Purple, Blue, Green, and Orange | 1/18/1946 | See Source »

Lipiec's claiming raids became so fiercely frequent that he replaced Hirsch Jacobs, leading U.S. trainer for eleven of the twelve previous years, as the turf's prime pirate. But since taking up headquarters in Gulfstream's barn F, horse racing's pint-sized pirate has slipped a bit. His claiming score: three acquired, nine lost to other claimers. Size of present stable: 17 head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pint-Sized Pirate | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Last week it appeared that Radio Lux would go back to its old ways. Pint-sized Jacques LaCour-Gayet, representing Radio Lux's French stockholders, said in Manhattan: "Radio Luxembourg will be very glad to accept American advertisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Lux Rides Again | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...longer the slim, handsome gallant who had dazzled Elizabeth in the Tower. His face was red, his beard streaked with grey, his hair thin. And despite Elizabeth's efforts to keep him on a diet ("two ounces of flesh" a day, and "the twentieth part of a pint of wine to comfort his stomach"), sweet Robin was getting paunchy. And then, one day, the Queen discovered that he had secretly married handsome, widowed Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex -or "that she-wolf," as the Queen preferred to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweet Robin | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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