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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, September 24, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Andrew Tully Stuart Symington close friends have always been appalled at the Way people go around saying he could sell ice boxes to in Ardaya think sin toned they its deep freezes hed sell the Point is washing ton is almost unanimous in agreeing that William Stuart Symington Iii is one of the most persuasive men Ever to descend on this As a nobody is worrying too much about his ability to handle the Job president Truman has Given Job in makes him Boss of the nations new defense Stu Symington will stay As chairman of the National Security resources but from that Post he will make All the final decisions affecting defense production expansion and eco nomic mobilization As the country girds to fight the communist threat to Start Stu Symington has obvious Hes a big Rangy Man of 49 with hair a society editor once de scribed As Taffy his jaw is Square and his smile is but the thing you notice most about in the rare moments when the Man is in his it seems constantly to be boiling out of when he it is not so much a walk As it is a kind of Symington has been a Success so Long it seems incredible that he should Ever have but he in a Way that warms the average mans heart for the discomfiture of the stuffer Shir Ted element in the business it is a Delight to report that Stuart Symington was fired from both his first and his third a Rich mans son who was born in and brought up in Symington joined one of his lathers companies after leaving he was fired because he didst like the company product and said he then developed a Cla products company of this but returned As Vic president of another of his family manufactured Auto he got bounced from that he be cause he told the president nobody in the company knew How to make Stu Symington went on to an Assort ment of and in 1938 became president of the Emerson elec manufacturing in there he shocked the More conservative industrialists by cooperating with the Union and establishing a profit sharing if in going to have a in going to have a Good he he came to Washington attention during the War when he worked As an observer in England for the office of production the then Harry Truman had be come impressed with Young Symington ability during an investigation of a War contract at so on june Stu Symington was named chairman of the surplus property Beard and Given the Job of Selling off Worth of War his biggest feat in that Job was in Selling the War born government built aluminium plants so As to set up Competition to the Alu Minum of from the surplus property president Truman plucked Stu Lyming the letters trans planted him to the Post of assistant Secretary of War for Symington enthusiasm for the flying machine practically engulfed the was one to the most vigorous fighters for uni fica which and for a 70group air which program Calls Lor Only ii feature Section Horace who took Cpl Emit Dyson to the on his youth Opportunity congratulates the Singer after he wins a contest at the pcs baritone sensation Emil Dyson wins Fame in America As a singing Soldier by Richard staff writer one  expect the the army to be much of a place to pursue a singing but the pcs baritone Emil has won if not since he reenlisted Back in put aside his trombone and began to exercise his vocal the Louisiana Corporal says he got the break of his life when he went to the states on the Horace Heidt youth Opportunity program after winning three con tests in the the army made the trip possible by giving him six weeks although the Mellow voiced Dyson was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Heidt he pocketed some in prize Money and received plenty of encouragement from moguls in the entertainment the 6foot negro baritone was a Sensa Tion on his tour with the Heidt at it his performance and audience reaction on the applause meter prompted Heidt to say he believed Emil would sweep the in Holly for the fifth straight he again won top but at the municipal in the Quarter another Brad edged him out by a fraction of a by an Odd music is the reason Dyson is in the army he was drafted in 1941 and worked As a drafts Man and Supply sergeant until he was transferred to the 307th army he spent 18 months in during the War and returned to the in he was discharged in october 1945 and trombone in went unto local 802 of the musicians Union in new for six months he tried unsuccessfully to get a Union playing an occasional Date in the but six months of living on an unsteady income ate up his savings and he rejoined the Dyson came to the dec As a member of the cadre of the 427th army unit that later became Gen Lucius clays special with a swing band from that Dyson performed for King Haakon and the Crown Prince of the Breaks Dyson  get As a civilian began coming shortly after he returned now a member of the 24th to in in Dyson has a regular recorded program Over sundays at 11 an interlude of and through the efforts of 1st it Michael Ellis and Frankfurt posts special services entertainment Dyson now is making regular appearances be fore audiences in the september 1950 contents articles the pcs baritone sensation by Richard Habein ii officers learn of think like generals at leaven Worth by Herbert wait bang ill have you seen our son by Omer Anderson a Vii picture features exercise in handsome Matador v Berlin Beer i regular features those United Stales by Andrew ii strictly Bridge in Cooks tour by in latest dec films x dec showcase i who reenlisted in the army in is shown in an an studio recording his an interlude of song which is broadcast sundays at 11 pm to dec this weeks cover the Soldier with the the tank killer that is giving the North korean lists so much pfc Michael Leabru a late res ident of but now an Jerry chief photographer of the stars and photographed him on the main River line near h a n a u during exercise rain the 1st div Soldier is with the Isth inf photo credits j i picture position top Middle r right left by Jerry Waller by George Penn array smarmy Bleavy others ing by Rollie Ostier bring stills by Mem others the stars and stripes  
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