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Appointed Secretary of the Army: WILBER MARION BRUCKER, 61, Detroit lawyer and politician...
...governor of Michigan. He cut his own salary 10% (to $4,500 a year). "I feel," said Brucker, who dealt with millions at work and pinched pennies at home, "like a vagabond king." In his 1932 re-election campaign Mrs. Brucker tried to help, made a speech proclaiming: "Wilber has been a great governor. Two years ago, when he took office, the state had a deficit of $2,000,000. Today, in just a few short months, he has raised that to $8,000,000." Another time she told a meeting of Republican women that she and the governor were...
...golf, swim in the pool at home in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. In Washington he has not yet picked up a club, lives in a one-bedroom apartment where Mrs. Brucker collects Meissen china and 3-D photos. Their son is a third-generation lawyer in Detroit. Even-keeled Wilber Brucker neither drinks nor smokes, laughs readily and hail-fellows Odd Fellows, Masons, and a host of other fraternal brothers. At a recent Washington party he met a Soviet general, who asked if he had ever seen military service. "I was a corporal in the Army," said Brucker genially. "Well...
Fifty years ago today on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilber Wright pioneered in achieving flight with heavier-than-air craft. The associated industries that have grown up around the airplane during its half-century of existence new provide work for over half a million people. In the midst of the growth of these industries, a striking change has taken place in the attitude of the public toward aviation. Once considered a dream of impractical man, aviation today has an honored place among vocations and professions...
...Alaska visit in 1946 gave Wilber the material for two of his best scripts, A Long Night in Forty Mile and Two Pale Horsemen. Alaska also gave him a touch of gold fever. He does not think of TV writing as a lifework. What he wants to do is make enough money to head back to the Klondike in style. He says, mysteriously: "I know of a lost vein on a ridge between the Chitanana and the Cosna Rivers. I'm going to go back there...