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Jane Russell's charms, as exploited in advertisements, got Producer Howard Hughes in trouble with the Eric Johnston (ex-Will Hays) organization. Producer Hughes was summoned to defend himself next week against "suspension or expulsion" from the organization for violating the standards of decency. Sample obliquities in a recent newspaper ad that carried robusty Miss Russell's picture: "The Music Hall gets the big ones," "What are the two great reasons for Jane Russell's rise to stardom...
...Said Eric A. Johnston last week in launching a campaign for $12,000,000, to fight cancer: ". . . We are entering on an era of new hope. . . ." The problem of cancer research, he concluded, was comparable to the problem of atomic research ten, 15 or 20 years...
...Among them: Eric Johnston's three Spokane companies (TIME, March 4), Williamson Heater Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Lance Inc., Charlotte...
Last week the Senate Banking and Currency Committee listened to a steady hum of argument in its favor. C.I.O. President Philip Murray thought it an "essential first step in expanding world trade in which American labor has a vital stake." Said U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston: "The American system of competitive capitalism cannot exist in a contracting world. . . . [The loan] will help create jobs for 5,000,000 U.S. workers...
...Majesty's Major General Eric Mansergh had flown into Den Pasar from his Surabaya headquarters. The Netherlands' towheaded Colonel Fritz ter Meulen had arrived with his two-battalion Dutch occupation force. Japanese Army Colonel Kobungo Tsunuka and his naval sidekick, Captain Shizuo Okuyama, gravely waddled across Den Pasar's village square and presented their swords to the British commander. But only 300 Balinese solemnly watched the surrender. Exclaimed an officer who had known pageant-loving Bali before the war: "Godalmighty, there would have been 10,000 at a celebration like this...