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...left the General Motors presidency in 1940 to direct the U.S. armament program; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Detroit. Danish-born "Big Bill" Knudsen arrived in the U.S. with $30 in 1899, went to work in a shipyard, got a job in 1911 with Henry Ford and became his right-hand man. After a policy row in 1921, he went over to G.M. and soon made Chevrolet the competitor that killed the Model...
Late one night last week, as usual, the New York Times went to bed. But the 48-page Times that cascaded from one of the big presses was not at all as usual. The right-hand "ear" on Page 1 identified it as the "T.E.P." (for Temporary Emergency Project) Edition. A limited edition of a few hundred copies, it looked almost the same as the regular Times, except that the type was larger. But it was produced, without benefit of printers, by Vari-Type...
...orders Judd Gray, and up stands the little salesman, removes his spectacles, and "cocks" the very sash weight with which he bludgeoned his mistress' sleeping husband. "[He] has," notes Runyon, "a sash-weight stance much like the batting form of Waner, of the Pittsburgh Pirates. . . . He is a right-hand hitter." And for the thousands of women whose interest in the Pirates is small, Runyon has other generous helpings to spoon out. "Mrs. Snyder," he notes, "the woman who has been called a Jezebel [came] stepping along briskly in her patent-leather pumps. . . . She has a good figure...
...paralyzed the papers. But last week most of the strikebound dailies were on the stands, thanks to a new technique in printing and, chiefly, to its sponsor, Manhattan's small (total assets: $800,000) Ralph C. Coxhead Corp. Its Vari-Typer machines, glorified typewriters which automatically set straight right-hand margins, were being used by most of the strikebound papers to by-pass the linotypers. The biggest fault that readers found with the papers was that they looked like a stenographer's work...
Amid the waterfall of motions, secondings, right-hand raisings, and other commonplace manifestations of parliamentary procedure that took place at last night's meeting in Adams House, one unanimous vote carried uncommon significance. The meeting, which created the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan, had been dealing with the various aspects of the Marshall Plan that it felt ought to be "saved." The vote was in favor of accepting a broadly outlined four-point program, and its unanimity was significant in that it included the assent of leaders from such widely divergent groups as the Students for Democratic...