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...industry goes to bed late, gets up around 7 a.m., breakfasts on a stool at the Broadmoor luncheonette, drives himself to work. In a day he sees from 20 to 30 callers, spends most of his time on the telephone. Once a week he lunches at the Raleigh Hotel with Leon Henderson and Milo Perkins, who runs the Economic Warfare Board. On those days, most of the power that drives the U.S. war effort is gathered at one table in the Raleigh's dining room. Other days, Don Nelson lunches at his desk...
...famed Tarheel Editor Josephus Daniels last week staged a spry comeback on his lively, incomplete, partisan, aggressive, successful Raleigh News & Observer. After a nine-year absence (as Ambassador to Mexico) shrewd old "Uncle Joe" Daniels had "enlisted for the war" to replace his son Jonathan, who went to OCD in Washington...
...only his age (he is 79) that dictated the Ambassador's decision. But Mrs. Daniels, who suffers from chronic arthritis, and has long been confined to a wheel chair, had made up her mind to return to her home in Raleigh. Wrote Ambassador Daniels to the President: "No one knows better than you that I cannot carry on without...
...Heel Editor. An oldfashioned, liberal statesman is Josephus Daniels. Born in the second year of the Civil War, he grew up in the age of trust-busting and reform, became a disciple of William Jennings Bryan. As owner and editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, he fought the railroads, fought the power companies, feuded with the tobacco barons who made North Carolina rich...
...unreal war news in his paper, a citizen could turn up images of U.S. life as disjointed as the visions of a fever: a 16-year-old boy, running away with two girls, 15 and 14, confessed killing a North Carolina carpenter because he wanted his automobile . . . in Raleigh, N.C., an obstreperous elephant, being put out of its misery, refused to die, sagged on its legs for 40 minutes while a prison warden pumped over 100 shots into it with a submachine gun . . . in Boston, showgirls demonstrated the V for Victory campaign and, incidentally, the unreality of the nation...