Word: rainbows
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...able, energetic President Les Faneuf, who started as Bell's special assistant 13 years ago after a rainbow career as everything from commandant of a military academy to political editor of the Buffalo Times, Bell has the kind of imaginative, production-wise executive the company needs in order to grow. But, says Chairman Bell: "No matter where I am, when an airplane flies overhead, I'm going to go outside and look at it. I don't think I'll ever get over that...
...Johnson was appointed to the regulatory agency by President Roosevelt in 1940, won President Truman's blessing after he refused to step down at the mandatory retirement age of 70. A civil engineer, Johnson served as a sergeant in the Spanish-American War, was chief engineer in the Rainbow Division in France during World War I. He went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1935, later earned a reputation as one of the slow-moving ICC's most effective members. His resignation, long sought by the Administration, will pave the way for a younger chairman...
...combination of the imagination of Jules Oline and Salvador Dali could not have concocted such a triumph of weird and other worldly wilderness as kicked up the dust in Sanders Theatre last night. Fantastic masks, brilliant costumes, lighting of all the colors of the rainbow,--it is impossible to describe, but the nearest thing to it is Barnum and Bailey at their best, minus the elephants,"--and so the writer went...
...nervous illness, married Agent-Producer Sid Luft. When it seemed that a star had died, Luft resurrected her, put her back on her feet in big-time vaudeville (audiences at Manhattan's Palace and London's Palladium wept on hearing again her old, nostalgic Over the Rainbow), catapulted her higher than ever in movies and on TV. But somehow the Lufts' rainbow ended in a pot of debts, piled up, according to Luft's friends, because of his unhappy knack of betting on also-ran horses. Last week, after nearly four years of marriage...
...rose from a $2-a-week bookstore clerk to become co-publisher of the old Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., one of the world's biggest book publishers; in Toronto. A publisher with a mind of his own, Doran refused to publish D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow on moral grounds, was allegedly called a coward by John Dos Passos for censoring his Three Soldiers before publishing it. Training a jaundiced eye on postwar bestsellers, Doran once said: "Can't say I think much of 'em. Trashy, dirty stuff ... No spiritual force, no moral fiber. Great Scott...