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...Dana Tasker says admirals are just about the hardest cover subjects - because oceans and battleships and gold braid look so much alike. Washington figures are also apt to be difficult. For example, how would you go about signalling the news significance of U.S. Economic Dictator James F. Byrnes for flash recognition...
Promoter of this deft plan is scrappy, flash-quick Robert Ralph Young (TIME, Dec. 28), whose rambling Alleghany Corp. owns 60% of MOP common and $11,000,000 in 5½% convertible bonds. Usually a rooter for rail debt reduction, Bob Young boiled over when he first saw the ICC plan: Alleghany's huge holdings in MOP common were tossed out entirely, its 5½% bonds were treated almost as badly. When he took another look he got madder still: the big insurance companies (holding the topflight bonds) would control the road...
...clock last night the students, faculties, and service men of the University had not yet solved the code message contained in Sunday's Terry and the Pirates. Look: Milt Caniff can do it, the General can do it, and I bet you two to one Flash Gordon could do it with one had tied behind his rocket ship. Well...
This was the first press conference any American President had ever held beneath a protective umbrella of fighter planes. In the desert heat, beneath the roaring planes, General de Gaulle and General Giraud shook hands while photographers' flash bulbs popped. The President said this was a momentous moment...
...flash of common sense on price economics came from the New York Daily News. In a down-to-earth editorial slugged "Don't Buy A News-Borrow One," America's largest paper announced that in order to cut circulation it had doubled its Sunday price (to 10?) in Canada, would soon do likewise for its western circulation, and might in due course "bring the 10? price right up to the suburbs of New York City." Moreover, its advertisers will have to pay 10% more for space, reduce their space requirements on the average 10-15%. These changes...