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...Matter of Seconds. At 7 p.m. His Majesty's Submarine Truculent was headed up the Thames estuary for the Chatham Naval Base, after a diving test cruise in the North Sea. Aboard was her regular complement of six officers, 55 men, plus 18 civilian Navy yard technicians who had been checking up on recent repairs to the Truculent...
Less than an hour later, the Navy announced that the aircraft carrier Boxer, with a normal complement of 90 planes, and two escorting destroyers, would beef up the 7th Task Fleet based on the Philippines. Next day the Joint Chiefs said they would leave next month for a conference with MacArthur and an inspection trip of U.S. forces in Japan "contemplated for several months...
...advertising world, the quipsters say, every agency has a special back door to accommodate its swarms of vice presidents. Last week, Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., fifth biggest U.S. agency,* had to enlarge its doors. It added four women to its present complement of 40 male V.P.s. The new veeps: Alberta Hays and Margot Sherman, both heads of copywriting groups; Florence Richards, an account executive, and comely Dorothy B. McCann, an executive producer in the radio-TV department and wife of McCann-Erickson's Board Chairman Harrison King McCann...
...sincere in giving Indo-China self-rule. By year's end, Viet Nam will run its own courts, finances, railways and utilities. The French will have to retain a heavy hand in military affairs; they are now training a Viet Namese national army of 90,000 to complement the 130,000 French troops now in Indo-China. Chief problem of the French is to clear the Communists from the country's rich food-producing areas and to prevent a junction between Ho's forces and the victorious Communists of China...
...spiced with Bronxisms. What keeps this confection from cloying is Author Berg's tart recognition of human frailties and her blunt but understanding sense of humor. Besides writing, co-directing and bossing her show with an iron will, Gertrude Berg plays Molly, the Goldberg matriarch, with a full complement of shrugs, flutters, malapropisms and a passionate capacity for making something dramatic of the commonplace...