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...Washington loves a fight more than the Federal Communications Commission's sorrel-topped, razor-tongued chairman, James Lawrence Fly. This week, having easily won Senate confirmation of his reappointment to FCC, Chairman Fly could look forward happily to another seven years of hard work and hard fights...
Backstroke. In Williams Field, Ariz., hospital attendants applied an eight-inch-square bandage to the posterior of Private John Fain, who had killed a fly with a razor while he was shaving in the nude...
...stuffing from many a radio shirtfront, mocks soap operas, commercials, himself, his station. Last week he went to work on Mutual in a big way. Out over WOR, Mutual's Manhattan outlet, went a startling satire-a monologue on "The Strange Disappearance of the Mutual Network." Listeners heard razor-edged remarks on Mutual's recent loss of The Lone Ranger (TIME, June 8), a casual, sometimes funny flow of gags about Mutual executives. ("Manager Fred Weber may be forced to wear 59? shirts.") Nothing quite like it had ever gone...
Above all, Commandomen must learn to kill. They prefer to kill quietly. A favorite Commando weapon is a long, straight knife, both edges sharpened razor-keen, carried in a trouser sheath. Some have metal kneecaps, fitted with metal spikes, to be driven into enemy crotches and spines. They can devise their own daggers, clubs, knives. They know the uses of spiked brass knuckles. All must know a Commando equivalent of jiujitsu. Fiercely, without quarter, they battle each other in practice combat, often break each other's bones: a few nights before the St. Nazaire raid one officer...
This Gun For Hire (Paramount) might have been designed for the carnage trade. A razor-edged melodrama, it possesses some of the most calculated killing to come out of Hollywood since the movies discovered gangsterdom in the early...