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...planned the Field-Evans paper will begin publication about Jan. 1, will be a full-sized paper published six days a week, will be operated not as a corporation but by Field as direct owner. For managing editor it may possibly have CBS's top-flight publicity chief, Louis Ruppel...
...best women golfers in the U.S. include Helen Silleck Holleran (co-owner of the New York Yankee baseball empire), Sylva Annenberg Leichner (niece of Publisher Moe Annenberg) and Grace Amory (ex-stepsister of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt). Last week in Brookline, Mass., these gold-spoon golfers and no other top-flight amateurs matched strokes for the Women's Golf Championship...
Lacking funds, Entrepreneur Doster appealed to NBC for help. Forthwith C. Lloyd Egner, head of NBC's radio-recording division, got together a ton of top-flight recordings, dispatched them to the Zone. Among them went a series of recordings made especially for the Jungleers by Actress Lawrence, now an honorary Jungle-Mudder, 1st Class...
...members of the National Resources Planning Board, of which the President's uncle, liberal, aging Frederic Delano, is chairman. The man picked to boss the job was greying, unassuming Luther Gulick, Republican, friend and adviser of the Rockefellers, a Columbia University professor of government. Assistants were almost all top-flight economists. They went to work. Last week their brief report, written and rewritten before the President finally scribbled "F. D. R." on it, was released...
Enough aircraft makers had reported their second-quarter 1941 earnings by last week to prove one startling fact: despite the industry's terrific production pace, its first-half profits rose less than run-of-the-mill industrials. Five top-flight plane builders (Curtiss-Wright, Douglas, Martin, North American, United) netted $27,229,000 in the first six months, only 21% over 1940. But a cross section of U.S. industry (135 motors, steels, oils, etc.) was able to boost profits 30% (TIME...