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...week's most unlikely conqueror turned out to be a softspoken, 37-year-old NBC newscaster named Roy Porter...
Stuff & Things. Venus Fixer DeWald, a softspoken, pipe-smoking ex-professor of art history at Princeton, was an infantry officer in World War I. Colonel DeWald has followed on the heels of advancing Allied armies, listing damage, determining what "first aid" is needed. When he sees some of the atrocities committed on art by the retreating Nazis, he frequently has trouble with his blood pres sure. During the past year Colonel De Wald, who invariably refers to Italy's priceless objets d'art as "stuff & things," could sketch, from reports of his staff, a broad outline of what...
Least known of the nine, outside of Army circles, is softspoken, sandy-haired, 53-year-old Tom Handy. Graduate of V.M.I., artillery expert and one of the Army's shrewdest strategists, Tom Handy is Deputy Chief of Staff. The promotion of desk-bound General Handy ahead of more publicized field commanders (like George Patton, Courtney Hodges, William Simpson) underlined the importance of the home-front military...
...Chester Bliss Bowles, walked up Capitol Hill last week to ask Congress to extend OPA for another 18 months. As usual, Adman Bowles was armed with a great sheaf of adman's charts-150 of them-to show what OPA had been doing. As usual, he was urbane, softspoken, deferential. Only one note was missing in the interview. The rabbit-punching truculence with which Congressional committees have usually greeted OPAsters in the past was gone. This time the Senate's Banking & Currency Committee was on Chester Bowles's side from the beginning...
...Niles Trammell. the softspoken, spectacled head of the National Broad casting Co., calling from New York. He begged to speak to Mr. Petrillo...