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Molotov's right-hand man in the Foreign Office is 40-year-old Alexei Vassiltchenko, who few years ago was Stalin's clean-up man. In the evenings he plays a card game called "Preference" with his boss and listens to his long-winded, quasi-scientific dissertations on foreign policy. Vassiltchenko is Molotov's file man (Molotov cannot go half an hour without consulting a file), and one of his files is labeled Bessarabia and The Straits. In the view of the Russian Foreign Office, Bessarabia, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus are parts of the same objective...
Cities Service, a $1,068,579,000 aggregation of both oil (60%) and utility (40%) properties, is now run by a smooth, smart powerhouse named W. Alton Jones, for many years Doherty's right-hand man. Served with SEC's integration order in March, its sub-holding company, Cities Service Power & Light, answered with a brief, claiming Section 11 unconstitutional, but came to SEC's hearings nevertheless. Last week, Cities Service men heard an SEC lawyer named Frank Field sound off on what integration means to him. His view: concentrating either on its Colorado or its Ohio...
Nazis. Employing all the tricks of propaganda and intrigue, Germany has set up a machine that functions like a well-oiled Messerschmitt plane. The Nazi Führer is Arthur Dietrich, brother of Dr. Goebbels' right-hand man and press chief. Officially listed as Press Attaché to the German Legation, he employs a large staff of writers, translators and agents, operates his own printing plant, subsidizes Mexican papers, sponsors magazines such as the blatantly pro-Nazi Timón, and finances local Nazi organizations such as the Vanguardia Nacional. A number of smooth young Nazis arrived from...
...Yugoslavs arrested former Premier Milan Stoyadinovich, an old hunting companion of Field Marshal Hermann Göring, and spirited him away to the Serbian mountains, where, as police officials remarked cryptically, "even an airplane cannot land." The signature of Prince Paul's onetime right-hand man was found on papers which gave 50 German agents permission to "prospect for oil" along the fortified frontier between Yugoslavia and the Reich...
...book is called simply "How to Read a Book," and it is by a professor at Harvard's great intellectual rival, the University of Chicago. The author is Mortimer J. Adler, associate professor of Law at Chicago, and right-hand man of President Robert M. Hutchins...