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...Memo to the Girls," appearing in today's issue of Life, J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been called one of America's foremost eligible bachelors...
...Communist witness who got $9,675 for his two-year service as a Government-paid informer, then turned on Attorney General Herbert Brownell and his top deputy William Rogers when discrepancies were spotted in his testimony; of lung cancer; in San Francisco. Crouch in 1953 wrote a seven-page memo that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy used as the basis of his investigations of subversion in the Army...
...Force Lieut. General Emmet ("Rosie") O'Donnell received a terse memo: "The Chief of Staff directs that a thoroughgoing study be made of Air Force organization, procedures and policies dealing with the re-enlistment problem." O'Donnell recognized the directive for what it was: a do-or-die order to solve a problem that had already become desperate...
While he was alive, the Colonel stuck to his simplified spelling with a vengeance. When his own orthographer and key men on the Tribune staff objected to frater, McCormick splashed on their memo one red-ink sentence: "We will keep frater because the Tribune likes it." But now that the Colonel is no longer the Tribune, it is developing new likes and dislikes. "It's largely due to public relations," explains one old staffer. "We are eliminating a feeling of irritation." There is, adds another Trib staffer, "a sort of indescribable feeling of mildness about the place...
...city room bulletin board of the Nashville Tennessean went a memo last week: "The constructive, liberal policies which have characterized the Nashville Tennessean under the direction of my father will be continued ..." The statement, signed with a bold signature startlingly like that of the late publisher. Silliman Evans, was the work of Silliman Evans Jr. In accord with the "earnest desire" expressed by his father, brisk, self-assured Silliman Evans Jr., 30, will be come the new publisher of one of the South's liveliest and most powerful papers. His brother, Tennessean Reporter (and vice president) Amon Carter Evans...