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...essence of the Stoll technique is cooperation rather than attack. The committee avoids public crusades or reform waves, concentrates on first getting all the facts, then making helpful suggestions. Says Chairman Stoll's brilliant right-hand man, Lawyer Charles E. Keller: "We avoid all politics. However, we will criticize conditions, or a bad system-or public apathy, if it is to blame. . . . But we never criticize a public official except to his face...
Numbers are printed in the right-hand corners of the cards. Three signals from the cheerleaders, the first announcement of what number should be used, the second a signal to hold up the cards, and third a signal to lower them, will direct the proceedings...
...called the industrious new editor "Alfred the Ant" behind his back. The impertinence soon gave way to respect. Wadsworth plugged the gaps in the London and local staffs with serious youngsters who wanted independence more than money (average pay of Guardian reporters is only $48 a week). For his right-hand man and chief leader writer he chose slender, 35-year-old John M. D. Pringle, an Oxford graduate and foreign affairs expert who had been with the Guardian and the BBC before the war. To expand his U.S. coverage, handled for 19 years by the New Republic...
Within the next few months, Emanuel plans to merge most of the associated companies (those which AVCO controls) into AVCO, simplify the operating procedures. At the top now is the combined policy-operating group, headed by Emanuel. His right-hand man, president and production boss of AVCO and board chairman of many of the other companies, is Irving Brown Babcock, 55, who learned his production know-how in 20 years at General Motors, was a G.M. vice president and head of its truck division until he joined AVCO a year and a half ago. Babcock's right-hand...
...this sounded as though only a Nazi could have prepared it-and apparently one had. He was natty 42-year-old Dr. Heinrich Dörge, reputedly the favorite disciple of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and Schacht's right-hand man in running Germany's famed Industrial Credit Bank. Just after Pearl Harbor, Dörge had drifted to Argentina via the U.S. and Chile. He reportedly became Miranda's confidant and idea-man in his rise to power with...