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This week to Washington went Princetonman James Vincent Forrestal, after turning in his resignation as president of the top-flight Wall Street investment house of Dillon, Read & Co. His new job: No. 4 of Franklin D. Roosevelt's $10,000-a-year administrative assistants "with a passion for anonymity." In the reforming New Deal of 1939, Wall Streeter Forrestal's appointment would have set alienists to wondering. In the war-defense New Deal of 1940's summer it got only passing notice. For against the possibility of war, Franklin Roosevelt's draft on business was already...
...immutable law of the air waves that the cost of radio entertainment varies inversely with the rise of the thermometer. Busy last week with summer substitutes for top-flight shows were NBC, CBS, MBS, many an advertising agency...
Last week, at a dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Dr. Myerson displayed to a gathering of top-flight U. S. dentists his new invention: transparent-tipped, natural-looking false teeth set in ruddy gums of a new plastic material. Exhibit A was a beaming colleague, fitted with a well-worn set of brownish, irregular teeth. "How becoming they are," exclaimed Dr. Myerson, "to the rugged character time has produced in his face!" As one man, the dentists rose and applauded the teeth, applauded bold Dr. Myerson...
Last week, while air lines were waiting for CAA's final decision, top-flight air transport men who went to the National Aviation Forum in Washington to meet old friends, hear speeches, were not surprised to find the name of Grover Loening on the list of speakers. Sitting in the Department of Commerce auditorium, they saw toothy Grover Loening square off behind the lectern, lay down his spectacles, and tell them what they were missing...
Most of them were under 50; few were top-flight tycoons. Vice presidents and managers rather than board chairmen in private life, they were picked (mainly by Baruch) from industry's "coming...