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...turned out to be Hedda Hopper under it." He pontificated : "On the whole, I'd say the conference has done remarkably well." In Boston, Editor Canham, well pleased with his new columnist, suggested that Kenneth could stand a few spelling lessons but might one day become a topnotch newspaperman. Kenneth was pleased...
...roomful of crackling wartime caricatures - tures-Axis in Agony - went on the auc tion block in Manhattan this week to boost bond sales. The drawings were the work of topnotch Commercial Artist Boris Artzybasheff, who did them originally as Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. advertise ments. Most of Caricaturist Artzybasheff's 32 imaginative, humorous, smoothly competent wash drawings show the Axis coming out second best against U.S. industrial might. In Artzybasheff's fancy: ¶A crisscross pattern of steel wire becomes a cage for three hoary, gaping primates with the faces of Mussolini, Hitler and Tojo...
Among other. things, onrushing Allied armies have been capturing a good deal of topnotch German technical equipment. Last week Dr. Vannevar Bush's OSRD told how U.S. ingenuity had put some of this equipment to use in spite of Nazi effort to sabotage...
Thus, when World War II came, Newport News was one of the few yards ready & able to turn out big carriers. Nine of them, including the Enterprise and Hornet, slid from the ways. Helping matters were 1) an apprentice system that provided a backlog of topnotch workers, and 2) an incentive-pay plan that has kept the yard free of work stoppages...
Killed in Action. Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, 61, General Eisenhower's naval commander in chief, topnotch amphibious-operations officer, who organized the evacuation from Dunkirk, planned and executed the naval phases of the Allied invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy; in a plane crash near Paris. A quiet, aloof man (nicknamed "Dynamo" by admiring associates), Ramsay refused to let Churchill watch the landings in Normandy, on the grounds that he and his men would have enough to do without worrying about the Prime Minister's security...