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Bonney took his post here in July, 1946. He has served in the Navy 35 years, graduating from the Naval Academy in 1918. Bonney's wartime service put him in command of an attack transport and a submarine squadron in the Pacific. In 1945 the Captain became Deputy Commander of Admiral Nimitz's Service Squadron...
Taken together with the Atlantic Council's decision to set up a joint cold war high command, and the Schuman proposal to pool French and German heavy industry (TIME, May 22), the new defense plan was the strongest impulse toward real union that the West's heart had felt...
Appointed by King George VI in London as commanding officer of the anti-aircraft frigate Magpie: son-in-law Prince Philip (see cut), who will have 192 men under his command (his first). More good news for Philip: he is due to be promoted from lieutenant to lieutenant commander, which will mean an increase of nine shillings ($1.26) a day, bringing his base pay up to ?1 12s ($4.48). His marriage allowance (as the husband of Princess Elizabeth) of 18 shillings sixpence a day ($2.23) will stay the same...
Dogged Battle. As boss of "Operation Red Ramp" (for Red rampage), with nearly 5,000 army, navy and air force men under his command, Morton's job was to prevent complete inundation of Canada's fourth largest city (pop. 320,000). At least 10,000 houses and eight of greater Winnipeg's 75 square miles were already flooded; traffic on two of the city's key bridges was cut off, dividing the area into semi-isolated segments. The water level stood twelve feet above the point of first flooding. The city's vital power stations...
...Under the command of cloak-&-dagger Commando Fitzroy (Escape to Adventure) Maclean (TIME...