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Like all carriers, the CVA-58 would not go it alone, but would have to operate as part of a carrier task force, to be accompanied by 16 destroyers (to provide a radar and antisubmarine screen), four to six cruisers for antiaircraft and surface support and at least two smaller carriers to carry fighter planes. The CVA-58 will probably carry about the equivalent of an Air Force bomber group, of which the Air Force has 16. One spread of torpedoes or a near-miss from an atomic bomb would put it out of action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Biggest Ever | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Speaking before a many-sided and responsive audience to close to 1200, Wallace supporter O. John Rogge 11 times called the evening's discussion of the U. S. Communist question, "a typical smoke-screen for fascists, American style" while lawyer Morris Ernst 9 times hammered for completely aboveboard Communist Party operations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communism, Peril or Red Herring, Brings Acrid Law Forum Exchange | 10/9/1948 | See Source »

Radcliffe will run off its own preliminary round, and the winner will then advance to the final round in Boston, datelined for October 22. The eventual winner will be offered a screen test and other inducements to a movie or modeling career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Tries For Miss Red Feather | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

Died. Warren William (Krech), 53, stage & screen actor; of cancer of the bone marrow; in Los Angeles. An immediate success in the early talkies, he specialized at playing sophisticated villains and cultured detectives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...parts in two unreleased films are also villainous. In her career of screen wickedness, she has already been strangled, shot, run over by a car and sentenced to prison (as a bad girl must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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