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> Cherubic Calvin Benham ("Beanie") Baldwin, protege of Henry Wallace, began working at Farm Security Administration (then Resettlement Administration), in 1935. He spent $1½ billion trying to put 1½ million indigent U.S. farm families on their feet.
Picturesque "Prich" Prichard arrived in Washington with a cum laude degree from Harvard Law School, and without the distinction of not being a protege of Justice Felix Frankfurter. He moved on to the Justice Department, to the new Office of Economic Stabilization. On dull days, when there was nothing else...
Visually the New Opera Company's Merry Widow is as up-to-date as a Reno divorce. Smartly streamlined by Director Felix Brentano (a former Max Reinhardt protege) and studded with billowing ballets by George Balanchine, Lehar's masterpiece now looks like something that had just stepped out...
Power at the Top. Marshal Joseph Stalin and his colleagues in the Supreme Command probably noted these Axis signs with interest last week. But it was certain that he and the Chief of his General Staff, 46-year-old Marshal Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky, did not take the signs to mean...
Intense, ambitious, handsome, emotional, able, fluent, glib and graceful, Rufus Griswold had left his Vermont home and wandered from town to town as a printer, became a protege of Horace Greeley, got into politics briefly, edited the New-Yorker and other gaslight scandal sheets of the 1830s, married happily and...