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Elsa Maxwell, plump, professional party-planner turned columnist, was tickled when Photographer Leora Thompson assured her that she had an "exuberant"-looking leg. She exulted: "Really, it's not so bad. There may be a lot more of it than necessary, but. . . I don't know-any fat women with legs that can compare with mine...
...Economic Planner Beardsley Ruml: $140,000,000,000; 55 million jobs...
Died. Carl A. Cover, 51, lean, weather-beaten, super-efficient Bell Aircraft Corp. vice president, onetime crack test pilot of nearly all Douglas aircraft (e.g., DC-3 transport, A20 attack "Havoc" bomber, etc.); and Max Stupar, 59, Austrian-born industrial-aviation planner; in an airplane crash, while flying a twin-engined cargo plane from Marietta, Ga. to Buffalo, N.Y.; near Wright Field, Dayton...
...Confused? Almost simultaneously came the counterattack. Wayne Chatfield Taylor, sleepy-looking but shrewd Under Secretary of Commerce, stated that the Department's figures were carefully defined and "reasonably clear and simple." In effect, said Taylor, no one was confusing the figures but the Brookings Institution. Planner Ruml merely looked over his tortoise-shell spectacles, disdainfully, said he "saw no reason" to change his estimates...
...present wage-&-hour-act floor under wages from 40? an hour to "at least 50? and subsequently 60? an hour." (After the article appeared, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper drafted a Senate resolution to give the War Labor Board power to raise the floor to 65?.) This, said Planner Hopkins, smoothly ignoring all hold-the-line thinking, should bring approval from "enlightened businessmen." It would steady consumption "during the transition to peace...