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Within 48 hours-by radio, TV, press report and Pentagon telegram-the U.S. people knew the best and the worst of the news from the enemy. Eight thousand of the 11,000 American families, whose sons, brothers, husbands and fathers had been listed as missing in action, could only hope against fading hope, or pray that the names they could not find would yet turn up in the ranks of the living. The kinfolk of the 3,198 identified U.S. captives wept, laughed, gave fervent thanks-and all the U.S. shared their painful...
...Pentagon, Whitehair has acted like a smalltime politician in an oversize job. During business hours, he regularly keeps admirals with high-priority business stacked waiting outside his plush-lined office, while he leisurely hashes over old times with political cronies. An expert fence mender, Whitehair recently had the Navy postpone a minor ship-recommissioning ceremony, at Green Cove Springs, Fla., until he could get down there last week to harangue the home folks...
...Whitehair's most urgent tasks is to clear up the desperate housing shortage for sailors and their dependents at expanding Navy installations. Last week he named a special assistant to take care of this problem, which, the Pentagon professionals insisted, is "a topflight executive job." The appointee, classed as a "manpower" expert, was none other than Whitehair's-and Donald Dawson's-good friend William Willett, out of a job ever since the Senate kicked...
...corridors of Tin Pan Alley's Pentagon-the Brill Building, on Broadway-oldtime songwriters are taking it big. A novice at the trade has written a catchy song called Snowflakes, Guy Lombardo has recorded it for Decca, and song sheets and records are selling in a flurry. The successful tunesmith: a nine-year-old girl from Brooklyn, a fourth-grader who doesn't even know Billboard from Variety...
...half speed and stay there is a trick the U.S. has not mastered. Wilson & Co., the Pentagon and the Truman Administration generally seem slow to learn the techniques required for the program they have laid...