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...elected President of the U.S. is one thing; to get real control of the U.S. Government is something else again. Bound up in a web of civil-service regulations and often forced to keep holdover Democrats as their right-hand men, Ike's Cabinet and sub-Cabinet members sometimes feel like Gulliver straining to break out of the bonds of the swarming Lilliputians...
...hard-drinking Allan Haywood, born a miner's son in Yorkshire. England, came to the U.S. in 1906. He followed John L. Lewis and Philip Murray up labor's ladder, recruited unions for the C.I.O., stuck with Murray when Lewis made his trumpeting breakaway in 1942. As right-hand man to ailing President Murray, Haywood seemed heir apparent, but after Murray's death last November the C.I.O. passed over aging Haywood, elected U.A.W. President Walter Reuther instead...
...John Moore Allison, 47, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, to be Ambassador to Japan. Allison taught English in Japan in the late 1920s before entering on a foreign service career. He visited the country in 1951 as John Foster Dulles' right-hand man in the Japanese Treaty negotiations. On the side, Allison is an authority on 18th century British Statesman Robert Walpole and his letter-writing son Horace...
...John Walker Barriger, 53, who pulled the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville ("Monon") Railway up from bankruptcy to prosperity, left to be vice president of the New Haven, where he will be right-hand man to President Frederic C. ("Buck") Dumaine Jr. Barriger, who poured more than $20 million into new equipment and roadbeds at the Monon, regards railroading as a "grand sport you get paid for playing...
...back at the controls of RKO Pictures last week. Howard Hughes, who sold control of the studio only two months ago for $7,093,940 to a group headed by Chicago Promoter Ralph Stolkin, moved back into control without putting up any cash. Noah Dietrich, Hughes's right-hand man and executive vice president of Hughes Tool Co., is expected to become RKO president. With Dietrich and two other satellites on the five-man board, Hughes has complete control, although the Stolkin group still holds the majority (29%) stock interest...