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...Wisconsin-born Raymond Paige was once second fiddle in Grauman's Chinese Theater (Hollywood), became conductor, graduated to movies and radio. Conductor Paige likes sweet tunes, lush arrangements, big orchestras. Says he: "I can do things with eight flutes that you certainly couldn't with one." In 1939 he realized his dream of the biggest, flutiest orchestra ever to play popular music on the air-in 99 Men and a Girl...
...Wisconsin-born, he was a successful maker of gunny sacks in Texas, a keen jute speculator, when the urge to go to Washington seized him in 1934. It happened one night in a Chicago hotel. Milo Perkins sat down, wrote a letter to Henry Wallace, whom he had never met: "From childhood I have wanted to live in the world so that I could . . . leave it happier because I had worked in it. . . . I am going to throw my whole energies into working for the principles of the New Deal. . . . It occurs to me that you might have just...
Pert, imaginative, Wisconsin-born Harry Gordon Selfridge is, as he likes to say, the only man ever to buy a business from five Jews and sell it to seven Scotchmen at a profit. The business was Chicago's Schlesinger & Mayer department store, sold to Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Harry Selfridge also made $1,000,000 from Marshall Field & Co., went to England with his profits. In 1909 he amazed Londoners with his magnificent effrontery by setting up a department store on Oxford Street, running it in the breeziest American tradition...
...Wisconsin-born, a Notre Dame graduate, Mr. Shuster was head of his alma mater's English department for four years, from 1925 to 1939 was an editor of The Commonweal, Catholic magazine. He considers himself a liberal Catholic, has lectured and written extensively on Catholicism, English literature, modern German history, edited an edition of Mein Kampf...
...Washington, D. C. a Guild local ignored the Board's letter, nominated Wisconsin-born, 37-year-old, brush-lipped Kenneth Crawford, Washington correspondent for the New York Post. In Denver another local went the Washington Guild one better, put up the name of much nominated* Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Other nominations followed thick & fast, included Milton Kaufman, onetime Executive Secretary Jonathan Eddy, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.)-and even (after the deadline for nomination expired) Columnist Westbrook Pegler...