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...Algiers, he found his ace economic brain-truster, urbane Herve Alphand, back from London after a successful conference with British officials. The British had reportedly agreed to: 1) transfer civil administration of liberated a.eas behind the battlefront to Gaullist commissioners; 2) recognize the Gaullist Committee's right to issue all currency in liberated France; 3) supply food to the liberated population...
Chairman of SKF's board of directors is talented, energetic Sven Wingquist. One of its influential directors is big, powerful Jacob Wallenberg, banker, match-truster a man of many financial interests, including some in Germany...
Mother of Boasting. Brain-Truster Eleanor Caddick, a 19-year-old student at the London School of Economics, attended Swarthmore College while in the U.S. One question put to her: "Why do Americans boast so much?" Answer: "In a pioneer country as people moved west they needed self-confidence to cope with floods, earthquakes, Indians, etc., so they boasted about their strength and courage to give themselves self-confidence. . . . A tradition of boastfulness was established and it continues." Later Miss Caddick remarked that every U.S. child has a musical instrument. Miss Morley quickly corrected...
...layman" of the Episcopal Church (Dec. 8, 1941), etc. Many a reader will recall hearing of Charlie Taft as a Phi Beta Kappa football and basketball star at Yale, a World War I veteran (first lieutenant), the father of seven children, a 7-handicap golfer, a onetime Landon brain-truster, a personable Cincinnati lawyer, and the possessor of a typical Taft dimple as well as his father's ability to make friends and have fun. Once before, in TIME Letters (Aug. 24, 1936), he was nominated for President. TIME would be happy to record the further advance of Charlie...
...hard at work, but his mood was that of a man well satisfied. The usual weekly meeting with the Pacific War Council was more than routine; as the other members emerged, their grave faces reflected the seriousness of the Solomons battle (see p. 27). With his onetime brain-truster, urbane Charles W. Taussig, and Sir George Gater, Britain's Permanent Undersecretary of State for the Colonies, he discussed the urgent need for food in the West Indies; with William Green and Philip Murray he talked again about manpower (see p. 18). He also discussed the possible appointment...