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...Titular head of AMGOT, more for prestige than for actual administration, was the Commander of the invading Fifteenth Army Group, British General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander. Functioning chief was an experienced British military administrator, Major General Lord Rennell of Rodd, who established the military government of Madagascar last year. His chief deputy was U.S. Brigadier General Frank J. McSherry, an engineer who has been in the Army since 1917 and has been an executive in various war agencies since 1938. Also in Sicily was New York's ex-Governor, Lieut. Colonel Charles Poletti. A notable absentee: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...
Seven weeks is not long to condition the greatest private industrial empire in the world for the loss of its titular head. But there had been more time than that. When Edsel Ford underwent a major operation 16 months ago, he must have known his days were numbered. But were even 16 months time enough to adjust the empire to the shock...
...Flynn has the titular responsibility of electing all possible Democrats-good, medium and terrible Democrats-to all possible offices in the land, in one of the toughest years in American history, at a time of considerable national dissatisfaction with the Administration's war effort. But the grind on Ed Flynn comes here: if the Democrats lose he will get all the lumps; if the Democrats win he will get no more reward than a character who brings back kittens to a man who left them to drown...
...great Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan and at Newport, the Vanderbilts became royal entertainers of royalty (Grand Duke Boris of Russia once exclaimed: "I have never dreamed of such luxury. Is this really America, or have I landed on an enchanted island? ... It is like walking on gold."). New titular head of the Vanderbilt family: thrice-married Journalist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 43 (Farewell to Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Palm Beach...
Franklin Roosevelt last week followed Winston Churchill's example and set up an inner War Cabinet. At its head he put the man who is his titular assistant, but whose only job traditionally is to preside over the Senate and wait around in case the President dies: Vice President Henry Agard Vallace...