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Last week Stern sent the stockholders a new offer. Confident that they would accept, he prepared to fly west again. With him he had a pair of right-hand men: George Nelson, advertising director of the late Philadelphia Record, and George Chaplin, managing editor of the Camden Courier and Post until Stern Sr. sold them last winter. In his pocket, Tommy Stern had a ringing, first-day editorial. Then, a few hours before plane time, he got the bad news in a terse wire: the Star had already been sold...
...legend. The Bogyok's A.F.P.F.L. party was more popular than ever, but its leadership had been almost obliterated. British Governor Sir Hubert Elvin Rance (who gets assassination threats almost every day) announced to Burmans: "I am glad to inform you that . . . Thakin Nu [the murdered leader's right-hand man] has agreed to form a new council...
Some observers think the Bulletin's new lease on life was drawn by a Philadelphia lawyer. As general manager, suave Richard Slocum, former law partner of Owen J. Roberts, is the McLeans' right-hand man, gets along famously with their staffers as well. His sights are already set on the first objective in the Bulletin's second century: finding newsprint for the new Sunday edition (circ. 650,000 after only nine weeks' existence) to compete with Walter Annenberg's Sunday Inquirer...
...Herald Tribune was pointing at Senator Taft. Colorado's Eugene Millikin, Taft's right-hand man, had indicated that he would support Lilienthal. Co-Leader Arthur Vandenberg gave Lilienthal lukewarm support; he did not want to jeopardize Republican unity. Upon Taft rested the outcome. Taft's word would solidify G.O.P. opposition or break it. He could cast his one vote and let it go at that; or he could demand a party vote. In that case, said one Republican Senator who privately admitted that he would vote to confirm, "a lot of us who would be independent...
...surprise but to a few people's wrath, the board found the "best man" in its own backyard-just two doors down from Wade's office. The choice shattered no precedents. The new superintendent: faithful, 59-year-old William Jansen, Wade's right-hand man in the formidable corps of 41 associate and assistant superintendents...