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...Memo at Dawn. By chance that morning, Eisenhower's sleep was restless. Up at 6 a.m., half an hour earlier than usual, he read the memo left for him. The presidential day that followed was crammed with urgent consultation...
...Albany, N. Y., the State Division of Employment received a terse memo from a New York unemployment insurance office in regard to a claimant: "Change of name: old name: 'X.' New name: 'John Smith.' Reason: he learned to write...
...opening days of McCarthy's Voice of America investigation, a low-echelon State Department officer put out a memo advising employees to use their "discretion" about answering questions of committee investigators when no Senator was present. McCarthy heard about it and protested. After Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith got the facts in the case, he hustled up to Capitol Hill for a conference with McCarthy. The offending memo was discarded, and State employees were ordered to cooperate with investigators...
...commission had begun work, one of its eleven members,* Businessman Robert W. Johnson, board chairman of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings, baby products), resigned because his health would not stand the strain. Included in the commission's final report last week was Johnson's parting shot-a memo in which he rated the services "in terms of cooperation toward manpower savings." His ratings: Marine Corps-"Excellent"; Air Force-"Cooperative and open to greater progress"; Army-"Spotty, large areas of resistance"; Navy-"Militantly resistant." Johnson went on to declare that the only way to save money in the armed services...
Secret Gimmick. Almost everything in radio & TV needs a gimmick, and the memo had one. It was called "The Secret Gimmick about the Baby's Sex." This, too, required an inviolate pledge of secrecy until the release date this week: "The Ricardo baby will be a boy regardless of the sex of the actual Arnaz baby. Of course, if the Arnaz baby does happen to be a boy, then all writers and editors can assume that the producers of I Love Lucy are clairvoyant and possessed of sheer genius. If it happens to be a girl, the story...