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Touch & Go. After Harry Truman telephoned him last week, Charlie Wilson slipped back to Washington by private plane, hustled from the airport to confer with Stu Symington. Then he checked in briefly with Secretary Sawyer. The mobilizers and stabilizers hoped he would not disturb their decentralized setup, until it became absolutely necessary to create a super-Office of Defense Mobilization. Said Wilson noncommittally: "I am in an exploratory frame of mind...
...seven Cabinet members, refereeing their arguments rather than dictating to them. Still, in a mobilization pinch, Symington can move in as President Truman's personal representative, twist arms and bang more heads together than could any one of the compartmentalized czars of World War II days. Tall, handsome Stu Symington has a highly developed knack for getting along with people. Friend & foe agree that the phrase that best fits him is "smart operator." He is impetuous, forceful, dedicated; a doer rather than a thinker; a man adept at brain-picking. He made a comfortable fortune and a reputation...
Charles Sawyer, 63, Secretary of Commerce, is keeper of the bridge connecting the Government with U.S. industry and business. Stiff and ambitious, he had hoped to grab the power that went to Stu Symington. He is responsible for much of the national production effort, e.g., he oversees the new National Production Authority. He also controls the nation's exports & imports and such enterprises as the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the U.S. Weather Bureau system, the U.S. highway system and inland waterways. He is a conservative lawyer with a long moneymaking record as promoter-businessman...
...middle is Jim Mills, and on the right stands Pete Throop. Both got their raccoon coats at Princeton long ago. Both graduated from Yale Law, class of '50. And a closer look at the third man, who is shown only side view, convinces me that he is Stu Carrothers, but has been frequently in these parts with Mills and Throop...
...Coach Stu Clancy has built his balanced-T attack around the passing of quarterback Joe Fortunate and the running of Jim Ralston, the fullback. Ralston stands 5 feet, 11 inches, and weighs 195 pounds, not overly heavy for a fullback, but he runs powerfully, and hits with the drive of a much larger...