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Last week Bill Boyle came to his reward. Democratic Chairman J. Howard McGrath, who is loyal but no mover and shaker, was called to the White House, gently given the word. Then McGrath announced that Boyle would be executive vice chairman, run headquarters, share in policymaking. There was much more to it than that: Bill Boyle would parcel out, or pass on, the jobs in the lush fields above civil service and below Cabinet rank (among them: judgeships, U.S. district attorneys, key postmasterships). Eventually he would probably take title officially from McGrath. His first goal: to buck...
...greater in the central kitchen, and the flavor and quality of these meals is definitely inferior. Dispensing meals can never be like building automobiles or libraries, because it is the little extras which spell the difference between good and poor meals. Dishes which have been salted with a shaker always seem tastier than ones in which a pre-determined amount has been dumped and stirred around with an car. Lugging vats of meat and vegetables through stifling steam tunnels to House Dining Halls necessarily renders most food tasteless...
...Kalmus, 67, for divorce. Her accusations were in the richest Technicolor (the profitable business of which he is president and she color director). Samples: "adultery with various women in California, New York, and Massachusetts"; two threats to "beat out her brains" (once with a club, once with a cocktail shaker...
...Face. Tossy's usual job is boring the coal to receive dynamite charges. Some days he works as a loader, heaving coal with a pan shovel (like an oversized soup spoon) onto a shaker conveyor. By working two overtime shifts, he grosses about $80 a week, but income tax, union dues and other check-offs leave him only $55 take-home...
Last week, Baldwin Locomotive got a waking & shaking up. The shaker was Westinghouse Electric Co., which bought working control (21%) of Baldwin. Out as Baldwin's boss went 60-year-old President Ralph Kelly. In as executive vice president and operating boss went Westinghouse's longtime chief engineer, Texas-born Marvin W. Smith, 54. Smith's big job is to put Baldwin back into the running for a share of the booming diesel-electric locomotive market...