People: People, Apr. 12, 1943

Capitolists

Of Chester Davis' new job as the nation's food czar, Brother Lewis Igo Davis happily murmured: "I'm glad it's his headache and not mine." Happy Brother Lewis is a Los Angeles butcher.

An hour before the plane was due in Chicago, the pilot found the landing gear stuck, informed his shipload of brass hats of the choice before them: parachute or a crash landing. While the passengers worried away an hour preparing for the next-to-worst, the mechanic got the gear unstuck. Among the relieved passengers: WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson.

Up rose Michigan's punctilious, little-known...

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