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Under a heading LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES SHOULD NOT BE BULLIES, the Times sternly editorialized: "It is no proper function of a legislative committee ... to turn itself into a prosecutor of what may currently be unpopular. . . . When they turn themselves into witch-burning agencies . . . they go far afield...
...celebrated weekly put on a weekly radio show for Philco (Blue Network, Sun., 6-7 p.m., E.W.T.). Just why the shrewd, slangy journal should break into radio was candidly explained by its grizzled, punchy editor, Abel ("Hiya, sonny boy!") Green: "For cash consideration, filthy lucre, publicity. For the durable function of bringing to the air what's good in all branches of show business-a sort of personality Crossley...
Ready Replacements. The vast supply function of the A.S.C. begins in the "accelerated service tests" of the Matériel Command. In these endurance runs of new planes, A.S.C. experts watch for parts which wear quickly, to be ready for replacement demands. By the time a new model (like the B29) is in the field, the parts it will need are ready to hand. In the Attu campaign, parts flown in by the Air Transport Command arrived before the planes for which they were ordered...
...Radio Radcliffe's function is not purely one of entertainment. During the summer it broadcast an appeal for blood donors to save the life of a boy in Cambridge City Hospital, announcing the blood type required. Since Radcliffe has no daily paper, notices must be broadcast, and Marge Erganbright '45, broadcasts "Campus News" once a week...
...Secretary Ickes, Petroleum Administrator, said unfinished Canol "is worth nothing and will have no value after the war," declared it "ought to be junked now." A WPB expert asserted that the 550-mile pipeline being laid between the oilfield and the refinery at Whitehorse in the Yukon will never function effectively because the mountainous wilderness it traverses is too cold...