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...Mexico's 38-year-old Edwin L. Mechem, the 105th governor in New Mexican history* and the first Republican to crack the state's Democratic machine in 20 years, got wind of an alarming rumor. His Democratic lieutenant governor, scheduled to be sworn in an hour and a half ahead of the governor's inaugural, was planning (so the story went) to rush through a swatch of political appointments before Mechem could act officially. Hurriedly, Mechem took his oath in his apartment before a notary public 15 minutes after midnight, took it again twelve hours later before...
...scene had in mind. Coordinator W. Stuart Symington had been quick to abdicate gracefully; it was he who had proposed Wilson in the first place, and he had also urged appointing Wilson on Wilson's terms though they would make Symington's job less important. But rumor flitted briefly through the capital that both Secretary of Commerce Sawyer and National Production Authority Boss William Henry Harrison were apprehensive. Harry Truman's directive put an end to any argument: Wilson would be the unfettered general manager of U.S. preparedness, controlling production, prices, wages, procurement, manpower and whatever else...
While Scotland Yard, aided by the professor's daughter and his young colleague, directs a nip & tuck hunt for the man and his bomb, the cabinet secretly orders the machinery of evacuation oiled up. Rumor gives the public a bad case of war jitters. Then, crowded by the professor's deadline, the Prime Minister shares the secret with the people in a tense radio talk. Troops and civil defense workers take over the city; packing only what belongings they can carry by hand, London's millions queue up resolutely to roll out in all directions...
...that he capitulated to the hens, Secretary Brannan paid a call on President Truman and paused on the way out of the White House to discuss a Washington rumor with reporters. Since many politicians were claiming that the Brannan Plan was discredited at the polls, was he on his way out of the Cabinet...
Last week he let his readers in on another feud at the opening of the Dallas Symphony season. Rosy did not care for the conductor, Walter Hendl, "whose continuance on our podium was in doubt as late as September." Even to readers unaware that Rosenfield himself had spread the rumor of Hendl's departure, the review was a tipoff. If Rosy has his way-and he usually does-Hendl's "continuance on the podium" was indeed in doubt...