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...baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons. Heading the Australian delegation was J. V. Fairbairn, Minister of Civil Aviation, a redheaded air fighter of World War I. Chief representative for Canada is Lieut. Colonel William Avery Bishop, V. C., honorary Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Now 45, short, chubby, softspoken, he scarcely looks today like the fierce-flying Ace Bishop who shot down at least 72 German ships in 1914-18 and once took on an entire German airdrome singlehanded, strafing its squadron one by one as they tried to leave the ground...
...platform in Rumania might well have opened its final scene. Three weeks before, they had been the responsible rulers of one of Europe's major powers- its sixth in population and area. Proud men, independent and successful, they had reason to be proud. Philosophical Smigly-Rydz, shy and softspoken, had built Poland's Army until it included 1,500,000 trained reserves; deft Josef Beck, untroubled by accusations of lack of scruples, had maneuvered Poland successfully for years despite her precarious international position; had seen Poland grow from a small Baltic State to a power that...
...Marshal smiled and said: "Ah, but you have good roads." The Marshal is a scholar-technician rather than a leader-drillmaster. Like France's Maurice Gamelin, he is an admirer and close student of Napoleon. In his study are two busts and four portraits of the Little Corporal. Softspoken, shy, gentle, he cannot be profane or brutal when he tries. The Army...
...Borrowed Time (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), borrowed from the 1938 Broadway hit, is a rose-colored peek at the bourn Hollywood visited in Death Takes a Holiday. As gently as a mortician, but allowing itself an occasional smile, it presents Death as a softspoken, courteous gentleman ("Mr. Brink") equipped with an impeccable British accent. Its story is what might happen if an old man, tenacious of life, could get this urbane Grim Reaper trapped up an apple tree...
...Morgan and Co., in common with most U. S. elevator boys and other brokerage hangers-on, was somewhat overexuberant. Morgan & Co. and its "good neighbor" Bonbright & Co., put up $20,000,000, plus common stocks of great utility systems, giving United $150,000,000 in assets. They installed softspoken, aristocratic George Henry Howard as president of the new utility combine. Howard was one of the smartest graduates of the informal law school that the late Dwight Morrow ran at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett's Manhattan lawshop, before Morrow became a Morgan partner. Howard's best known contemporary...