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...best men for 20th-century jobs. To an applauding House of Commons he announced that hereafter posts in a combined Foreign Office-diplomatic-consular service* would be available to all on the basis of ability. Presumably salaries will be raised to attract men without private incomes. Himself a wearer of the oldest Old School Tie (Eton's black and light blue), Anthony Eden confined his reasons to the dignified statement that "the reforms we propose will not only increase efficiency but will also make our diplomacy more representative of the country as a whole." Even the ultraconservative, Tie-sporting...
...Washington since September as special assistant to War Secretary Stimson. Manhattan Private Banker Robert Abercrombie Lovett was appointed Assistant Secretary of War for Air, a spot that has been vacant since Herbert Hoover's time. As a special assistant, thin-cheeked Bob Lovett, wartime naval aviator and wearer of the Navy Cross, has been hard at work since De cember on Air Corps problems, carries the hope of Army airmen that he will give them the kind of representation they need in high Army councils...
...mantle of P. T. Barnum now flow over the tough shoulders of Showman Mike Todd who ran four of the biggest, most popular attractions at the recent New York World's Fair (Gay New Orleans, Streets of Paris, Dancing Campus, Old Time Op'ry House). Previous wearer of the whole mantle was Showman Billy Rose, but if Showman
...Catholic leader in Britain. His Eminence announced that he would give every British Catholic soldier, sailor and aviator (2,250,000 in all) a personally blessed crucifix of bakelite (to save metal) with the crucified figure "sunk into the cross so that it can't catch in the wearer's uniform." Then Cardinal Kinsley went on the air to preach a holy war against the Nazis...
Warwise Canadians, seeking the hard facts of death and disaster, knew one place to find them. In spite of censorship, in spite of anonymous telephone calls accusing him of treason, in the Toronto Star Go-year-old William Rothwell Plewman-platinum-haired and wearer of a tall Herbert Hoover collar-wrote his daily column, The War Reviewed, analyzing World War II as he once analyzed World...