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...months overdue. As far back as last April Nelson appointed a reconnoitering committee, headed by bombastic, nonscientific Maury Maverick, ex-Congressman, ex-mayor of San Antonio, to make recommendations for a bureau of production research. Maverick did his work quietly for once. Yet the result was a politico-scientific rumpus which brought to a head the issue: should WPB's research problems be assigned mainly to big, well-heeled research plants or to small, specialized laboratories? For a solution, much depended on the character of the man appointed to head OPRD. WPBoss Nelson has neatly avoided committing himself...
...Razzle-Dazzle. Andrew Higgins stole the march by using a double dose of Kaiser's own technique-rough & tumble action plus fortissimo publicity. Right after Higgins lost his ship contract, he raised enough rumpus to start several Congressional investigations, to snag thousands of headlines, and convince many people that he was a victim of the Maritime Commission. When things slowed down Higgins bought full-page ads in leading newspapers, boasting "World's largest builder of boats...
...gavel to open the company's meeting in downtown Manhattan. Up jumped scrappy, leather-lunged Stockholder Samuel Okin, crying: "This whole meeting is invalid . . . the proxies must be checked." Chairman Groesbeck quickly shoved the gavel into the hands of tall, suave Ebasco President Samuel Wilson Murphy, but the rumpus could not be stopped...
...quiet Jersey hamlet of West Milford last week, a small-town rumpus took on a national significance. The First Presbyterian Church (membership: 176) decided that the symbol of the church takes precedence over the symbol of the state. Despite the vigorous objections of Police Chief Somers Stites, the Presbyterians kept the Christian flag to the pastor's right and the Stars & Stripes to his left in their little white clapboard church...
...were sore because they were cut out of a few badly needed dollars they had hoped to make on the deal; Dillon, Read and other non-members were griped because they lost the expert help of exchange members, had to do the job all by themselves. For starting this rumpus the exchange had plenty reason: it wants to keep all sales on the floor of the exchange...