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Show if ' a , Y WHO'S 1 NEWS This Week Lemuel F. Parton Consoltdated Features WNU .Release. "NJEW YORK. The swelling army of these embattled United States travels triumphantly on a stomach filled stuffed by Gen. Edmund B. Keeps Army on Gregory. It The Go With Its is his guaran- Stomach Stuffed ee' as c"ar .jiw.tm.,. tu termaster general, that army groceries will put six pounds at least on any soldier sol-dier who eats them regularly for six months. The general put on his own six pounds long ago. For years, in fact, he would have been happier hap-pier with a few off. No luck! Sixtyish now he is broad of face and broad of beam. And for all that a few congressional critics , growl in his direction, he is generally gen-erally reputed to be a broad-gauged broad-gauged executive. His degree from West Point is only a lesser . qualification for his present job of having plenty piping hot when four odd million American soldiers sol-diers jam into mess halls all over the globe. He did a tour of post-graduate duty at the Harvard Har-vard Business school besides a swing through the war college. This last attests to his I.Q. You have to be bright before the army lets you go there. General Gregory was born in Iowa and it could be that boyhood struggles strug-gles through Iowa's mud fit him peculiarly pe-culiarly now for the job of moving goods regardless. His fleet of trucks would make Genghis Khan's biggest train of pony carts look like something some-thing out of Lilliput. He has to figure fig-ure on 250,000 vehicles for every 1,250,000 soldiers. He is one swivel chair general whose shiny pants-seat pants-seat is the result of hard work. And if ever his wife of 31 years gives his wide front a look and says, "Edmund, you really ought to diet a little," he can fairly answer that he has to keep on eating to keep up his strength. SOME people grow surer every day that the wings of peace- will take all America into the air. Polish Pol-ish off this war, they say, and aerial flivvers will All America May become so Take to Air With foolproof, so J7. - n handy that Wings of Peace wjves wiu use them to run down to the grocery. gro-cery. Whole families will go vacationing vaca-tioning deep into South America and whatever is left of Europe. It will be push-button travel. A button for elevation. A button for distance. A button for correct for drift. A safety safe-ty button to fend off other craft. If this miracle ever comes to pass Mac Short will certainly have had something to do with the planes that make it possible. possi-ble. He has been leveling toward to-ward some such result ever since he tested home-made gliders glid-ers and his own skeletal structure struc-ture off the ridge of his father's barn in Kansas. That was more than 25 years ago. Now he is the new president of the Society of Automotive Engineers, an e art abound name that only hints at the aero-dynamics with which many members, the new president presi-dent included, busy themselves. Short was in the army air service at 19, a flying lieutenant when the last World war ended, a graduate mechanical engineer in 1922 and he has been an airplane engineer and designer ever since. He formed the Vega Aircraft corporation in California Cali-fornia in 1937 and for three years has spent all his time taking the bugs out of that company's ships. Forty-five now, he is married and has two daughters and a son. JAMES L. FLY, chairman of the Federal Communications commission, com-mission, squares off and gives the radio industry the eye. Radio gives it right back. FCC Chief , Radio u Congress- Industry Clubby rnan L"ce . f, . could find a As Kilkenny Cats couple oI women as opposite she'd have them in each other's hair before you could say frequency modulation. The commissioner com-missioner and the industry have been that way about one another ever since the commissioner took over in 1939. He was re-appointed last year so there is every likelihood likeli-hood that they will continue. Mr. Fly now draws blood with an announcement that recent vulgarity on radio programs has brought more complaints than usual, and that the FCC is investigating. in-vestigating. This might be a belated riposte to the charge of incompetence made not so long ago by the National Association As-sociation of Broadcasters. Before that Mr. Fly had likened the whole industry to a dead fish in the moonlight. moon-light. Dead fish, he explained, shine in beauty but they also s--k. But Mr. Fly was careful to omit none of the letters. And he can spell pretty well. The commissioner is a graduate of the tough Annapolis course, as well as of Harvard. He took on Harvard Lav after having resigned from the nay in 1923. |