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Harvard Club of Houston, Texas. Inquire of Richard A. Stout, Secretary. Shell Petroleum Corporation, Houston, Texas...
General Hugh Johnson: "Head gives impression of being all face. Brutal, coarse, ruthless mug of toadlike consistency. Fleshy features of crude clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like armor-clad rhinoceros. Looks neolithic, neckless, materialistic with powerful drive and stubborn pugnacity. Atavistic. Unusually intelligent primate. Nose.like a darning gourd. Expression like an old procuress...
...Cesare Pinchetti, on his first visit to the U. S. Like his father before him Signor Pinchetti owns Rome's Hotel Bristol, where visiting royalties used to stay. He speaks for the Italian hotel industry in the National Council of the Corporative State (see p. 23). Short, stout and 46, he was more excited last week over the prospect of seeing Niagara Falls than over the Waldorf dinner...
...violence in the past fortnight the long agitation over University of California student radicalism came to a painful head. Small, sporadic outbursts of young liberalism have made Red-fearing citizens plague the University's President Robert Gordon Sproul with demands for investigation. Sproul the Educator shot back a stout defense of academic freedom. To students arriving for this year's session he boomed: "Learn about Communism, Socialism and every other 'ism' so that you may balance . . . one against the other, but don't be misled" (TIME...
Into the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act he wrote for Congress last year Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman carved that clause as a stout weapon for just such a battle as he was in last week. For the first time he was telling potent carriers how to route their trains and for the first time the railroads were openly challenging his authority to dictate on ordinary traffic matters. The immediate stake was $1.000,000 per year in passenger revenue between Chicago and points South. The larger issue was the whole principle of one-man control over the railroad...