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...George Creel, if one is ever appointed, is a soft-spoken ex-newspaperman named Lowell Mellett, elder brother of Don Mellett, "the newspapermen's martyr," who was killed in 1926 by gangsters on whom he waged war as editor of the Canton (Ohio) News. Top-flight Scripps-Howard editor and executive for 16 years, Mellett parted company with Roy Howard in 1937 over editorial policy in the Supreme Court fight. Called by President Roosevelt to head the National Emergency Council, super-press bureau of the New Deal, Mellett soon succeeded Charles Michelson and Tommy Corcoran in the President...
Several schools have opened this year with top-flight foreign and native instructors. Hannes Schnelder has been teaching at Blandford, where several tows are in operation. The facilities there were developed by the Springfield Skiing Club. This town is on Route 23, called the Hill Top Trail by the Pioneer Valley Association...
...muscled into a Bar Harbor hotel whose dance music had been supplied by Boston Symphony men. Now Eastern dowagers would sooner serve gin and ginger ale at their parties than employ non-Davis bands: during a recent Newport season, Meyer Davis played at 59 out of 60 top-flight parties. (The eccentric 60th hostess hired Paul Whiteman.) More than half the young ladies at last month's Philadelphia Assembly-oldest annual party in the U. S.-had come out to Davis melody. Meyer Davis has played through five administrations at the White House, although he had few dates during...
...grew progressively less phony, he decided to tell all in a pseudo-philosophical autobiography. Haw-Haw's dubious masterwork has had small sale in Germany, none in Great Britain and the U. S. Last week, borne to the U. S. by ace Radio Correspondent William L. Shirer, top-flight newshawk for CBS, a copy of Haw-Haw's apologia turned up in CBS' Manhattan offices...
Father of the plan was Charles Cotterill, a Manhattan promoter-attorney specializing in Interstate Commerce Commission cases. Cotterill plugged his idea for years, finally interested Wilmington's Du Pont family. For president. Transport chose Burge M. Seymour, head of Manhattan's big Metropolitan Truck Leasing Co., a top-flight operations man. For financing. Transport went to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., which underwrote railroad giants in an earlier...