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...passed down through the Air Force recently warned: "Our No. 1 problem within the Air Force is the current and future shortage of trained, experienced men . . . During this year we may lose as many as 200,000 men. Among them will be veteran pilots and experienced staff officers." The memo could have included top air commanders, for last week the head of the Strategic Air Command's combat-ready Eighth Air Force, 43-year-old Major General John B. Montgomery, resigned from the service. A non-West Pointer (Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.), Montgomery was a colonel...
...U.A.W.'s top officials have all picked up the habit; when called, they pick up their notebooks and gather around Reuther's kidney-shaped command post. If they argue too long, he snaps: "I think I know the feeling of the workers." Once a six-page draft memo was brought to him for approval. "It's too long." said Reuther, picking up his pencil. When he got through, the memo was 13 pages long, but he liked it better. He can - and does - speak almost endlessly on almost anything. "You ask him what time it is," complained...
...cities where his papers are published-and even in the city rooms of many of the papers themselves. He has never made a public speech in his life, he uses a briefcase for his main office, and he carries in his left-hand coat pocket a sheaf of memo paper, held together by a paperclip, showing the status of his papers' cash account. Although he is a registered Democrat, many of his eleven dailies-scattered across the U.S. from New York to Oregon-are pro-Republican. The publisher: Samuel I. (for Irving) Newhouse, 59, who in the past...
Last week, while awaiting the DeMille design, Secretary Talbott sent out a memo suggesting that all hands play down the Hollywood angle. "It's getting out of hand; people better understand that we're still making the final decision, not Hollywood." Cracked an academy officer: "We've been afraid people would think our cadets were going to carry spears...
...Memo from the Boss. The Government witnesses agreed that doing business with the Star Co. had big disadvantages. Several businessmen testified that when the Star Co. found their ads in local weeklies or magazines, they were warned by the ad department: "So long as you can get space elsewhere, you don't need it in the Star." One owner of a small clothing store said he was told by the Star that if he continued advertising in Topeka's Capper's Weekly (owned by the late Senator Arthur Capper), his position in the Star would get "worse...