THE ADMINISTRATION: Knee-Deep in Alligators

"We're rolling now," Charles Luckman breathed last week. "We're gaining momentum."

Soapman Luckman was indeed rolling. No one could have crowded more into the nine days since Harry Truman had telephoned him to come to Washington and head the "save food to save Europe" campaign.

The president of Lever Bros. (Pepsodent, Lifebuoy, Rinso, Spry, Lux) had been showing some visitors through his Cambridge, Mass, plant when the call had come from Washington. He could think of many reasons why he could not serve. He had just taken on a new cosmetics business for instance....

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