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When M-day came to WPB last week, Donald Nelson faced a dilemma of his own making. Month ago he could have bumped the heads of his fractious assistants. Last week Palace Guard shenanigans had gone too far to make this any longer possible. In sacrifice of top-flight ability, his indecision had cost the U.S. dearly...
...group journalism. Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor, Picture Editor and department head all lend a hand. The research staff often spends hours checking the authenticity of a single detail. And the actual work of painting a TIME cover is so exacting that we need three top-flight artists to keep up with our requirements-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff, and Boris Chaliapin (son of the Metropolitan basso). All these painters have such interesting stories that some week soon I will try to tell you about each of them...
...top-flight U.S. businessmen last week clashed head on in Washington in a struggle for power that is less indicative of their ambitions than it is of one bitter truth: after over a year of war, the Government's top industrial command is still disorganized...
...Eberstadt, who had served the Army and Navy well as chairman of their Joint Munitions Board, was switched over to WPB. Promptly he set up his Controlled Materials Plan (TIME, Nov. 9) and attempted to give his authority over raw materials practical force by staffing his production divisions with top-flight talent. To top off the new program Nelson, with Eberstadt's approval, called in Charlie Wilson, who should have become an expediter of particularly serious production bottlenecks...
...League are not measurably brightened by this news, for earlier in the season, Jack Riley, originally starting wing, left for the Army, and his shoes were more than capably filled by his brother Bill. Dartmouth's Coach Jermiah can be expected to fill Rondeau's spot with another top-flight puckster until Rondeau's return...