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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1941
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
jXJEW YORK.—Capt: Oliver Lyttle-
ton who tells the British they
can't fight a war and keep their
pants pressed, at one and the same
_ . _ _ . time, is one
Frayed Cuff and 0 f the hand-
Threadbare Knee somest and
wealthiest
Smart in Brtta.n and t0 date
best-dressed men in England. It is
as president of the board of trade
that he rations clothing and decrees
the proud distinction of shabby ap
parel. It is now smart to be shabby
in Britain.
Mr. Lyttleton is managing di
rector of the huge and powerful
British Metals Corporation Ltd.,
and, before taking his present
post last year, was controller of
non-ferrous metals. Under a
wide extension of his powers as
head of the board of trade, he
was enabled to take over indus
try for defense purposes and to
shift and re-allocate labor to any
tasks he deemed necessary. He
proceeded swiftly with his mobi
lisation of defense resources. »
This assertion of governmental
control caused the newspapers to tag
him as the “czar of industry,” and
it is interesting to note that our
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. is thus
headlined, as the mandatory priori
ties bill gives him the power to sub
ordinate all production to defense.
The extended parallel is also inter
esting in that Mr. Stettinius is also
a steel-master, former chairrqan of
the board of the United States) Steel
corporation.
England, perhaps more un
easy and alert than we in the
abstractions of social change,
was quick to interpret this cen
tralization of power as of pro
found significance. Beaver-
brook's Evening Standard said:
“This constitutes the biggest
economic and perhaps social
revolution that this country has
faced since the breakdown of
feudalism. In fact, we are on
the verge of a vast experiment
in syndicalism.”
Captain Lyttleton has never been
Involved in any such social drift. He
is Cambridge bred, the inheritor of
a vast fortune and an ancient name,
a hard-hitting industrialist and sol
dier with a reputation for quick and
effective action in any emergency.
He fought through the World war
with the Grenadier Guards, gather
ing the D.S.O. and several mentions
in dispatches. He is 48 years old.
\4UCH as it esteems tolerance,
this department occasionally
has noted that people who always
can see both sides of everything
____ _ . are frequent-
New OPM Deputy ly taken
Boss a Wonder at down with
Human Catalyzing alternating
personality,
or something like, and just cancel
themselves out.
James L. O’Neill, appointed dep
uty director of the OPM Priorities
is an exception. The baldish, ami
able, friendly New York banker has
an instinct for understanding the oth
er man's point of view, and at the
same time holding to his own. It
upped him steadily in the business
world, to his present post of operat
ing vice president of the Guaranty
Trust Co. of New York. This ambi
dextrous vision has given him rare
effectiveness in personnel problems
and in allaying friction in manage
ment. That might have a bearing
on his moving into the OPM at this
moment.
A Republican, he had a flexi
ble • attitude toward the early
New Deal, and was loaned by
fhe bank as control officer of the
NBA in December, 1934. When
the Supreme court saw only one
side of the NRA, and not the
sunny side, if any, Donald Rich-
berg moved out and Mr. O’Neill
moved in, as administrator. He
solved the problem of immedi
ate personnel by firing about
one-third of it, but by this time
the NRA was functioning only
to save funeral expenses. Mr.
O’Neill liquidated it in neat and
workmanlike fashion, and went
back to his bank. But he left
many friends in Washington, and
should be helpful in breaking pri
ority log-jams. He is known as
a marvelous human catalyzer.
He was born and grew up in
Pittsburgh.
Mr. O’Neill drove a grocer’s wag
on at the age of 10, became an er
rand boy for the Bradstreet Corp.,
and later credit man for the Car
negie Steel Co., a job which nur
tured his talent for mixing and paci
fying.
After 22 years of this, he joined
thfe Guaranty Trust Co., in 1918, en
gaged at first mostly in personnel
studies. He likes people and can
understand almost anybody. He is
deeply religious and is occupied as
a Presbyterian layman in church
•and welfare undertakings at hif
home in Short Hills. N. J.
Aluminum Salvage Campaign Begun
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The Office of Production Management has begun a salvage campaign
to collect aluminum cooking utensils and other scrap metals. If successful
it may be expanded to a nationwide “pickup” campaign, to begin about
July 4. The photo shows three Richmond, Va., residents with their con
tribution to the “sample” salvage campaign.
‘Big Four’ of Congress Meet With F.D.R.
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First on President Roosevelt’s schedule after a busy week-end at his
family home in Hyde Park, N. Y., was his meeting with legislative
leaders, the “Big Four” of congress. L. to R., Majority Leader John
McCormack, Speaker Sam Rayburn, Vice President Henry Wallace and
Sen. Walter F. George, chairman senate foreign relations committee.
Device to give infantrymen an
idea of the way to fight dive bomb
ing. Model plane is hoisted to top
of pole, where it is automatically
released to swoop down on a wire
towards trench in which infantry
men wait. This photo was taken at
Halifax, N. S.
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By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
W HEN Ida Lupino and Louis
Hayward (Mr. and Mrs.)
found that they were to be co-
starred in Columbia’s “Ladies
in Retirement” they gave three
rousing cheers; they thought
that they’d be answering work
calls together. So—the first
week, they actually had one day
together on the set. The second, she
worked every day and he didn’t
work at all. Not un
til the third were
they in line for
simultaneous calls
And they’re cast as
bitter enemies!
“We saw more of
each other when we
were working in
studios that were
miles apart than we
do now!” wailed
Mrs. Hayward.
Incidentally, this
looks like a good
picture; it’s made from a stage hit,
Charles Vidor is directing, and the
cast includes three top-notch ac
tresses—Elsa Lanchester, Edith
Barrett and Isobel Elsom.
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So many people wanted to know
how the Walt Disney pictures are
made that he was practically forced
to make his new full-length RKO
release, “The Reluctant Dragon.”
In it he uses both live actors and
his usual brand, and we’ll actually
see how the characters and pro
duction are created.
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This photograph makes the fact even more obvious that Queen Eliza
beth of England has the most charming profile in the world. She is seen
everywhere encouraging her subjects during the arduous days of warfare.
This time she was snapped while inspecting the members of the war
auxiliary services, who in Great Britain’s new war parlance pass muster
under the name of “wrens.”
Super-Bombs Dropped on Germany
U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes, 79, who
submitted a request for retirement
to the President, effective July 1, be
cause of age and health.
Martha O’Driscoll is in great de
mand on the Paramount lot. As
soon as she com
pleted her work in
“Henry Aldrich for
President” she re
ported for Cecil I
B. DeMille’s “Reap |
the Wild Wind.” nnd |
learned that ahe’d |
have to have her §■$
blonde hair dark
ened several shades,
all for the sake of |§|
Technicolor. The
cast for this picture
is an impressive
one — Paulette God
dard, Ray Milland, Raymond Mas
sey, Susan Hayward, Walter Hamp
den, Janet Beecher, Spring Bying-
ton, Robert Preston, Elizabeth Ris-
don. ’
Martha
O’Driscoll
‘Tuning Up’
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A stairway plays an important
part in the new Ronald Colman pic
ture, “My Life With Caroline,” so
RKO commissioned Nicolai Remis-
off to build it. It’s called “free
standing,” because it is entirely free
of support by columns or walls—
it’s suspended from steel beams in
; the middle of a huge drawing room
I set. And the treads are covered
with white, Chinese angora fur.
Cost, approximately $5,000, in case
j you’d like to duplicate it. Lewis
Milestone directed, with due appre
ciation for the staircase.
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Remember Charles (“Buddy”)
Rogers, who was a movie hero years
ago, and married Mary Pickford,
and abandoned the pictures for
band-leading? He plays the roman
tic male lead in “Mexican Spitfire’s
Baby,” starring Lupe Velez and
Leon Errol.
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Soldiers of the Sixty-first field ar
tillery “tuning up” a huge anti-air
craft gun for maneuvers, during
which more than 66,000 men will
move into simulated warfare over
600 square miles of central Tennes*
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The new March of Time film,
“China Fights Back,” depicts the
struggle of the Chinese people to pre
serve their national independence
and democratic way of life. It also
shows how, under the leadership
of Chiang Kai-shek, China has re
placed her destroyed industries with
thousands of small factories in the
mountainous interior.
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Heavy bombs, some of them weighing up to 2,000 pounds, are shown Sen. Andrew Houston of Texas,
being loaded aboard a British bomber before a raid over German terri- 86, who takes seat occupied by his
tory. The British censor-approved caption describes them as some of
Britain’s new “beautiful” bombs, whose blasting powej, five times that
nf anv previous bombs, are biowing German factories to bits.
father, Sam Houston, in 1846. He is
shown (left) with Sen. Tom Connal-
ly of Texas.
Veronica Lake, who skyrocketed
movie fame in “I Wanted Wings,”
turned slapstick comedienne in
Preston Sturges’ “Sullavan’s Trav
els.” The script called for her to
shove Joel McCrea into a swimming
pool, then be yanked in by one leg
by McCrea, and swing at his jaw
till he ducked her in self defense.
Her blonde hair was a mess of
stringy locks, and her silken evening
gown was another mess, when she
emerged. But a chance to work in
a Sturges picture is worth it.
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The Mutual chain’s news analyst,
Raymond Gram Swing, has a new
contract which will keep him on the
air Mondays and Fridays for an
other year for the same sponsor.
At the annual luncheon of the Wom
an’s National Radio committee he
was acclaimed “the commentator
best serving the interests of democ
racy.”
ODDS AND ENDS—Jinx Falkenburg,
Americas No. I model (did 38 magazine
covers during the last 12 months), says it’s
much easier to pose for photographers
than for a movie camera . . . Rita Johnson
thinks she rates a medal for being Holly
wood's No. I Steu’er—says she stews about
everything . . . Earners will make a series
of shorts dealing with the activities of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation; J. Edgar
Hoover is scheduled to appear in them . . .
Paramount will screen “Rurales, n a story
of the Mexican constabulary, as a good-will
gesture ... The talented Irish actor, Barry
Fitzgerald, is slated for the next Tarzar
film.
Obliging Her
“Last night George annoyed me
and I told him I never wanted to
see his face again.”
“What did he say to that?”
“Nothing; he just turned out the
light.”
Full Surrender
Hubby (tenderly)—Vve already ad
mitted that / was wrong. What more
do you want me to do?
Wifey (tearfully)—Just own up that I
was right.
SAW IT COMING
Sis—Did you tell Mr. Smythe I
would be engaged for a half hour?
Tommy—No I told him you’d be
engaged in a half hour.
Quite Frank
“You look marvelous today,
Barbara!”
“Flatterer!”
“No, really; I didn’t recognize
you at first.”
Open for Bids
Having an unusually heavy crop of
hair because he had been on a country
visit and hadn’t bothered to get a hair
cut, a man went immediately to his
barber when he returned to town.
“Haircut?” asked the barber.
“Not now,” said the man. “I just
dropped in for an estimate.”
Put Fear in Him
“Have you caught the burglar
yet?”
“No,” replied the village consta
ble, confidentially, “but I’ve got
him so scared that he doesn’t dare
show himself when I’m about.”
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■ PENETRO
Unsought Thoughts
The thoughts that come often
unsought, and, as it were, drop
into the mind, are commonly the
most valuable of any we have, and
therefore should be secured, be
cause they seldom return again.—
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