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...last week, as it must to innovators, a prattfall came to Lawyer Knight. Finding him "guilty of gross moral turpitude," the New York Appellate Division, unimpressed by his command of loose-reined English, declared in unyielding legalese: "The imputation of corruption and dishonesty renders it impossible for the most open-minded individual to characterize the vituperative attacks as fair criticism of the courts." In words of one syllable, Mr. Knight was kicked out of the New York...
Admiral Chester William Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was tenser than usual. For four months now he had been in command of a fleet on the defensive, a fleet of whose very whereabouts the U.S. had asked impatient, taunting questions. Now, at last, the chance was at hand to write in battle smoke across the Pacific sky the world-taunting reply: "Who wants to know where the Fleet is?" But in this modern naval battle Chester Nimitz' job kept him from taking personal part. With the ships under way, with all but the last-minute...
...commander was in the Battle of the Coral Sea the Navy was not yet ready to announce. Probable it was that Vice Admiral Herbert Fairfax Leary, recently detached from Nimitz' command and placed under MacArthur in Australia, was in on the show. It was equally probable that some of Nimitz' commanders were there...
Just back by plane from the Libyan battle-front, Major Stewart Benson, second in command of the American Field Service, will speak on the activities of the AFS in an open meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in Emerson...
Major Stewart Benson, second in command of the American Field Service, will discuss the AFS in an open meeting in Emerson D tomorrow night at 8 o'clock...