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...Republican victor was Chester O. Carrier, 47, longtime Grayson County attorney. Quiet, slow-spoken and slightly rotund, Carrier had punched cattle in Wyoming, railroaded in Pennsylvania, sold Bibles in the Appalachians. Outside Grayson County, no one knew much about him. But they did know Dan Talbott...
Bill Lamborn, the rotund, one-armed reception clerk who has presided at the Governor's office for most of his 65 years, has seen four men depart and run for the Presidency, and two of them succeed. He goes about his business amiably conscious of his responsibilities, knowing the odds are good that he will be serving another President in his lifetime...
Melitopol. Two weeks ago another force, under rotund and brilliant Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin, increased pressure on Melitopol. Himself a veteran of Stalingrad, Tolbukhin had under him many a Stalingrad veteran-tough and fire-tested. To these men, fate seemed kind, for in Melitopol there were Germans they hated most: units of the Sixth Army, destroyed at Stalingrad and now resurrected with new blood; the Seventeenth Army, responsible for atrocities in the Caucasus...
Last week WPB's rotund, owlish Chief Donald M. Nelson cautiously peered at reconversion, found it not so frightening. Said Nelson: in the first war stage, the job of U.S. industry was to spew out enormous quantities of every kind of weapon. But the U.S. is now in the second war stage, when emphasis has shifted to the production of special weapons and expanded manufacture of peacetime articles is needed to keep the war machine whirling. Example: farm machinery...
...gently into a four-foot, slippery, clay ditch. Two welders banged their helmets down over their faces, descended into the ditch, self-conscious at doing their daily routine before 800 people. Their electric torches flared briefly, shooting a sizzling glare in the bright sunlight. The vital work done, short, rotund Interior Secretary Harold Le Clair Ickes stepped gingerly down into the pit, posed for the photographers. Big Inch was through...