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...months since Under Secretary Robert Porter Patterson summoned him to the War Department, youngish (45) Mr. Lovett has done a standout...
President Roosevelt had been set back. Day later, the Yugoslav leaders who had signed with Hitler were out of office, under arrest; King Peter II was on the throne. Crowds stood cheering, waving U. S., British and Yugoslav flags, before the U. S. legation in Belgrade. Youngish, thin-lipped Arthur Bliss Lane, U. S. Minister, had to push his way through overjoyed celebrators to carry his message to the new Government. Hitler, not Roosevelt, had been set back. But still bigger news for the long term was that U. S. foreign policy had begun to prove effective...
...Named William Averell Harriman as "expediter" of aid-to-Britain in the U. S. Embassy in London. Glossy, youngish (49) Expediter Harriman until last week was OPM Materials Chief. His job: to handle the receiving end of aid-to-Britain...
Grant Wood's successor as mentor to young lowans is a youngish (36), tough-looking, tough-talking, tough-painting, handle-bar-mustached artist, Fletcher Martin. A husky onetime sailor and boxer, Martin is largely self-taught. His first oils and water colors, shown in San Diego in 1934, were done in his spare time as a printing pressman. The gobs and prize fighters Fletcher Martin used to sketch still flex their heavy muscles in his canvases; his Trouble in Frisco-sailors slugging, seen through a porthole-is owned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...Youngish, thick-featured Dr. Shorell has performed two of Edna Wallace Hopper's three face-liftings, has operated on a score of movie faces. His is one of the most lucrative branches of surgery. He makes one incision, in front of the ear, one under and behind it, sometimes a third along the hair line at the temples. With a blunt instrument Dr. Shorell peels the skin from the underlying muscles, as though he were paring a peach. In the muscles, loose from age like worn-out elastic bands, he takes a tuck with absorbable catgut. No tissue...