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Last week a Distinguished Service Medal was on the way to the Group's Commander, Brigadier General La Verne George ("Blondie") Saunders, a blackly hirsute Irishman who got his ill-fitting nickname and a reputation for indefatigable practical jokery at West Point.
Born in Powhatan County, Va. of an old Southern family, tall, good-looking Julien Binford was awarded the Ryerson Traveling Fellowship ($2,500) in 1932, spent three years studying in Paris. Returning to the U.S. with a charming French wife, Painter Binford bought himself "a more than primitive" house in...
Instrumental in lopping over a billion dollars in excess profits from government war contracts, Business School Professor Thomas H. Saunders last night defended the federal policy of re-negotiation of agreements with industry.
Until recently chief of the cost analysis section of WPB, Saunders exploded the current rumors that the government has "released cost accountants like a swarm of locusts" to prey on business, occupying their time and decreasing their production.
"Concerned only with millions," the re-negotiation policy attempts to recover excess profits for the government by a reconsideration of all the contracts of a company. According to Saunders, this scheme avoids the pitfalls both of requiring individual consideration of each contract and enforcing conformation to a general rule.