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Alexander S. Yakovlev, 46, handsome, dashing, longtime wonderboy of Red aviation. At 21, he turned out his first plane, a light trainer, by the time he was 30, had built 18 different types, most famous of which was the Piper Cub-like UT-2. His YAK fighter series was rated by French pilots as the best short-range interceptors of World War II. A daredevil and woman-chaser, he likes to drive fast, test his own planes, has had so many narrow escapes that Stalin gave him a Zis (Packard) sedan and restraining motorcycle escort. Now working on advanced rocket...
...from Ohio. John Bricker was by no means dead and buried. Ready to run for the Senate next year, he was an almost certain winner unless Ohio's Governor Lausche, the Democrats' wonderboy, ran against him. One high-placed Republican who keeps his finger wetted to the political winds thought that if a G.O.P. presidential convention were held today, John Bricker would win, hands down...
...committed the high journalistic sin of describing an event before it happened. His column, written three days before the Term IV inaugural but published two days after it, told how Franklin Roosevelt "played his part in the ritual like a veteran bridegroom. I was there. . . ." In his second try, Wonderboy Welles professed accurate knowledge of what Stalin had told his Big Three partners-at Teheran, Churchill and Roosevelt had wanted to refer a matter to their experts; Stalin rejoined: "Can't we three decide anything...
Forty thousand of his fellow citizens thought Wonderboy Smith could boot old Mayor Angelo Rossi out of his job, and signed a petition asking him to try. A good many others thought he would be easy to beat. Smart Paul Smith had a private poll taken and convinced himself he had a chance. Three hundred and fifty-six people who work for the Chronicle signed another petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick...
Paul Smith wanted to get into newspaper work, so he went back to San Francisco and began writing a financial column for the Chronicle. Then, deciding he needed more education, he borrowed $500 and went to Europe. In January 1933 the financial editor of the Chronicle died and Wonderboy Smith got a cable to come home and take the job. When Herbert Hoover tried to hire him away in 1935, he was made executive editor. In October 1937 he became general manager, with only one boss, Cementman George Cameron, who married the founder's eldest daughter...