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Just read . . . "Best-Covered Story" by Robert Sherrod [TIME, Dec. 13]. He says reporters "never try to rush onto a beachhead typewriter in hand." I wonder where Richard Johnston...
...last time I saw Mr. Johnston [at Tarawa] he was pecking away on what I'm sure was a portable. Of course, the way things were at that time I could have been mistaken, maybe he was playing a piano...
...Correspondent Johnston's featherweight Swiss portable was the exception that proved the beachhead rule...
...pedaled. And the Department readily admitted that the case would not be tried for a year or two, well after the war will presumably be over. Only in the light of postwar trade did the suit make sense. Many a U.S. businessman, notably U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston (TIME, Nov. i), has told the British that the U.S. does not like cartels, now or in the postwar world. The suit was the Justice Department's way of driving this point home...
...Last week, WPB acted to forestall this possibility. It approved construction of a $4,000,000 alumina refinery plant at Salem, Ore., by another infant, Columbia Metals Corp. The new member of the family is fathered by such West Coast bigwigs as Boeing President Philip Johnson, President Eric Johnston of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Weyerhauser Timber Company's Norton Clapp. The plant, to be built with DPC cash, will produce alumina from the West Coast's vast beds of clay. It will be the first plant in the U.S. to use this process...