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Last week Senate investigators had a chat with a quietly dressed Washington five-percenter named Glenn P. Boehm, who had such characteristics in abundance. Not only is he a Missourian, he also knows Harry Truman and is a friend of Presidential Cronies Donald S. Dawson and Major General Harry Vaughan. Under questioning, Boehm reluctantly disclosed a few of his successful Washington deals. Among them was arranging a $200,000 RFC loan for a Philadelphia paper concern, picking up a $10,000 fee for promising to help a Mississippian sell a submachine gun to Army Ordnance, and helping a "client...
Britain's Ralph Vaughan Williams is a composer who bides his time. Primarily famed as a symphonist (he has composed six symphonies), he waited until he was 51 to write his first ballet score (Old King Cole); at 69 he composed his first film score (49th Parallel). Last week, at 78, the famed old doyen of English composers finally made his first bow in Covent Garden with an opera...
...composer with a lifelong interest in religion, Vaughan Williams had worked for two decades, off & on, at adapting his Pilgrim's Progress from John Bunyan's allegory. His admirers reported that Progress would summarize everything Vaughan Williams has said musically for the past 40 years...
...Though the Bataan did not land until after midnight, 12,000 were on hand to welcome him. Among them were his critics in the highest brass: Defense Secretary George Marshall and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. On hand, too, was Harry Truman's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who shook Mac Arthur's hand and retreated, announcing with some relief: "Well, that was simple...
...Pearson had a Sunday punch. The Milwaukee Journal itself, said he, knew all the facts in the celebrated case of White House Aide General Vaughan and the deepfreeze scandal (TIME, July 4, 1949 et seq.) and was "afraid" to print it. Instead, it passed the story on to Congressmen to investigate. When Pearson picked up the trail in Washington, he risked libel and printed as much of the story as he could get. Said Pearson: "If Mr. Ferguson's paper had published and not banned columns, they would have published the story of General Vaughan...