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David Stowe, 39, is a Steelman protégé, born in Connecticut, a former schoolteacher and the son of a schoolteacher. He does the President's homework on the specific problems of the National Security Resources Board, planning the economic moves to be made in event...
...every weekday morning at 9:30 briefs the President on the latest military and political intelligence, resigned as chief of the National Security Council, effective Jan. 15. A wartime Navy intelligence officer (and a rear admiral in the Naval Reserve), first chief of the postwar Central Intelligence system, and board chairman of a prospering linen supply company on the side, Souers stayed out of the headlines and close to the President's ear. Among his tasks: refereeing between the State Department and the defense establishment...
Last week in East St. Louis, III. (pop. 75,000), Jim Crow lost another tattered feather. The school board ordered an end to the practice (also followed by many smaller towns in southern Illinois) of segregating Negro children in the public schools...
What impressed Wrenn most was the claim by Pan Am President Juan Trippe that the merger would save the U.S. Government $9,000,000 a year in mail subsidies. "A saving of $9,000,000 . . . is a very important item of public interest. If the Board approves [this merger], it should make clear to Pan American that it will expect [it] to make good on Mr. Trippe's representation...
T.W.A., the third U.S. North Atlantic carrier, objected to the sale. Last week, in a 200-page report, Civil Aeronautics Board Examiner Thomas Wrenn brushed aside T.W.A.'s protests and recommended that CAB approve the merger. Cried T.W.A. President Ralph Damon: a "monopolistic grab...