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Married. Donald Marr Nelson, 59, plump, balding wartime WPBoss; and Australian-born Valerie Edna May Rowell, 31, former British actress; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
Died. Marguerite Coulbourn Nelson, 28, handsome 1939 George Washington University "campus queen"; on the eve of the second anniversary of her marriage (her second, his third) to ex-WPBoss Donald M. Nelson (now head of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers); of a liver ailment; in Hollywood...
...they had tailor-made new models of autos and washing machines in secret rooms, hidden from the prying eyes of competitors. In Washington, the planning had been an off-again-on-again affair. It was off after the Battle of the Bulge, on at the Battle of Germany. Hastily, WPBoss Julius A. Krug had unwrapped the Government's overall plan. In its broad outlines, it was a plan to reconvert cautiously, to pluck the web of controls from industry a strand at a time, allocate materials, fix production quotas for the period between VE and V-J days. What...
...book is much more than a catalogue of sights & sounds, or a stylistic appreciation of scenery. There are also a dirgelike visit to Changsha battle field; illuminating talks with Dr. Sun Fo, "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, WPBoss Wong Wen-hao; ferryboat rides across the dragonlike Yangtze; discourses on the world and its state; days with abbots, poets, children and cymbal-beating actors. Above all, Payne admires and respects China's students and professors, the guardians of the past and the planners of the future, whose great hegira from the coast to the interior never fails to fill...
...impressive swan song, WPBoss J. A. ("Cap") Krug reported on U.S. war production. Said Krug: in five years the U.S. had more than doubled its industrial production, had out-produced not only its foes but all its allies as well, had hurled $186 billion worth of weapons and supplies at the Axis. The report's most remarkable highlight: "Great as our war effort was, at no time during the struggle did it absorb more than two-fifths of our total national output." At first glance, the transition to peace looked just as good. In his second "Report on Progress...