Show WHO'S l J NEWS Week Lemuel F. Parton Consolidated Features The swelling army of these embattled United States travels triumphantly on a stomach filled by Edmund B Keeps Army on ft The Go With Its s guaran-Stomach Stuffed JJ that army groceries will put six pounds at least on any soldier who cats them regularly for six The general put on his own six pounds long For in he would have been happier with a few No now he is broad of face and broad of And for all that a few congressional critics growl in his be Is generally reputed to be a broad- I gauged nis degree from West Point is only a lesser qualification for his present job of having plenty piping hot shen four odd million American soldiers jam into mess balls all over the He did a tour of post-graduate duty at the Harvard Business school besides a swing through the war This last attests to bis I.Q. You have to be bright before the army lets you go General Gregory was born in Iowa and it could be that boyhood struggles through Iowa's mud fit him peculiarly now for the job of moving goods His fleet of trucks would make Genghis Khan's biggest train of pony carts look like something out of Lilliput He has to figure on vehicles for every soldiers He is one swivel chair general whose shiny pants-seat is result of hard And if ever his wife of 31 years gives his wide front a look and you really ought to diet a he can fairly answer that he has to keep on eating to keep up his SOME people grow surer every day that the wings of peace will take all America into the Polish off this they and aerial flivvers will All America May become so Take to Air With so handy that n Wings of Peace wil use them to run down to the Whole families will go vacationing deep into South America and whatever is left of It will be push-button travel A button for elevation A button for A button for correct for A safety button to fend ofT other If this miracle ever conns to pass Mac Short will certainly have bad something to do with the planes that make it He has been leveling toward some such result ever since he tested home-made gliders and bis own skeletal structure off the ridge of his father's barn in That was more than 25 years Now he is the new president of the Society of Automotive an earthbound name that only hints at the aero-cl with which many the new president busy Short was in the army air service at a flying lieutenant when the last World war a graduate mechanical engineer in 1922 and he has been an airplane engineer and designer ever He formed the I Vega Aircraft corporation in California in 1937 and for three years j has spent all his time taking the bugs out of that company's ships Forty-five he is married and has two daughters and a L. chairman of the JAMES Federal Communications squares off and gives the radio industry the eye Radio gives it right FCC Radio If Congress- Industry Clubby man could find a As a Kilkenny ks-il Cats m. couple of women as opposite she'd have them in each other's hair before you could say frequency The commissioner and the industry have been way about one another ever since the commissioner took over in He was re-appointed last year so there is every likelihood that they will Fly now draws blood with an announcement that recent vulgarity on radio programs has brought more complaints than and that the FCC is This might be a belated riposte to the charge of incompetence made not so long ago by National Association of Broadcasters Before that Fly had likened the whole industry to a dead fish in the Dead he shine in beauty but they also But Fly was careful to omit none of the And he can spell pretty The commissioner is a graduate of the tough Annapolis as well as of He took on Harvard Lav after having resigned from the in 1923 |