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When people say the Chicago Times is run by a bunch of kids, they are only indulging in pardonable exaggeration. Apart from Editor Richard Finnegan (58), its news executives are softspoken, greying Managing Editor Russell Stewart, 33; News Editor Leo Zalucha, 33; Foreign Editor Irving Pflaum, once a United Press foreign correspondent, 36; Robert Kennedy, chief of the Times's Washington bureau...
Died. Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider, 74, one of the world's big munitions makers; in Paris. Hawk-nosed, trim-mustached, elegant, cynical, softspoken, he was the archetype of the cinethriller version of a mysterious merchant of death. He impartially sold arms to most of the warring nations of the world. He transformed France's famed Schneider et Cie. (Le Creusot) into an international power early this century, bought iron mines, mills, foundries, and shipyards in France, mines in Belgium and Poland, plants in Russia, finally founded the holding company, Union Européenne Industrielle et Financi...
Died. Edmund Somerville Tattersall, 79, world-famed auctioneer of race horses; in London. Stout, white-haired, softspoken, he was senior partner in the auctioneering firm founded by Richard Tattersall in 1766. Association of the name Tattersall with horse auctions and horsey people became so close that the name joined the language: a tattersall is 1) a horse market, 2) the alarmingly brilliant sort of vest some people wear around paddocks...
...General Vandegrift, who can be seen in the evenings stretched out meditatively in a canvas deck chair in front of his heavily fly-sprayed cabin, has been cool, softspoken, crafty, hard and wonderfully cheerful. The Air Commander . . . wears his cigar and chooses his tactics with a jaunty air. The colonels who command Marine regiments and battalions lie in coral-crusted mud with their men, dodge the soprano-chattering Jap 25-caliber guns. . . . A private, a wire-stringer, carried a heavy steel spool of telephone wire eight miles up & down 60° slopes. . . . There are great squads of anonymous heroes. . . . Perhaps...
...usefulness of advertising. This fact is confirmed by another Washington move: short weeks ago Elmer Davis set up a new department in the Office of War Information-an advertising department, the Bureau of Campaigns. Its purpose: to coordinate the present advertising activities of the various Government departments. Its head: softspoken, thick-spectacled Ken Dyke, former head of the Association of National Advertisers, and now on leave from the National Broadcasting...