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Arthur Krock, 64, who was right-hand man to New York World Publisher Joseph Pulitzer before going to Washington in 1932 to boss the New York Times bureau, the capital's biggest newspaper bureau (23 staffers). Krock almost never attends press conferences, prefers to depend instead on his personal contacts and his staffers' legs. As Washington's No. 1 correspondent, Krock's advice is often sought by Washington brass-from the President down. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes and two exclusive presidential interviews (Franklin Roosevelt in 1937, Harry Truman in 1950). Like all Timesmen, Krock...
...little man (5 ft. 4 in.) with a New York accent who is almost unknown to the public. But in Wall Street and in Washington, he is widely and favorably known as "the body snatcher." He earned his nickname as Chief Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson's right-hand man. He can get along with anyone, first-name big businessmen all over the U.S., and, more importantly, persuade them to take top posts in the defense program, just as he did in World...
Last week Hussein Makki, the Prime Minister's right-hand man, took foreign correspondents in Teheran on a tour of the "Pit," a slum of caves and crumbling hovels-all caused, he said, by British exploitation of Iran's natural resources. Oil nationalization was served up to both Iranians and foreigners as a magic cureall...
...this new venture, Sir Ernest's right-hand man is son Harry, a deputy chairman of Anglo American. Harry, who was educated at Oxford, and captained a company of Britain's "Desert Rats" against Rommel's troops in World War II, lives with his wife and two children in a smaller villa adjoining "Brenthurst," the palatial residence of his father and stepmother, outside Johannesburg. Harry likes fast cars and fast horses (he recently gave his father a prize colt, Ossian, which won Johannesburg's summer handicap the first time out). When Parliament is in session (Harry...
...worked his way up. In 1938, he succeeded Charlie Wilson as manager of G.E.'s Appliance and Merchandise Department, was elected vice president in February 1945 after serving as vice chairman of the War Production Board. Since then, Cordiner has been Charlie Wilson's right-hand man in planning and carrying out G.E.'s postwar expansion...