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...edge of their chairs at color movies of Chicago's little Siamese twins, which included close-ups of their brains as Neurosurgeon Oscar Sugar sorted out the mixed-up blood vessels, and details of the long and complicated series of skin grafts (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.). Also for the professional audience only was a sequence of the surviving twin, Rodney Brodie, sitting happily alone in a playchair, though the top of his head bulged under the pressure of the brain against its light covering of skin and fuzzy hair...
...Speeding Truck. The bitter feud between Columnists Lyons and Winchell flared up when Lyons resigned as vice president of Winchell's pet project, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952 et seq.). Recently Lyons lighted a firecracker under Winchell by writing a letter to New York City's Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan. The letter suggested that Monaghan revoke Winchell's pistol-toting permit, unless Winchell could pass a "psychiatric" test...
After nearly two years as commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, strapping General James A. Van Fleet came back to the U.S. with "a profound sense of frustration." His testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the Korean ammunition shortage (TIME, April 13 et seq.) made clear some of the reasons for the frustration. This week, in the first of two articles written for LIFE, Van Fleet gives a grim warning to the U.S. against the way the U.S. is conducting the Korean War. "We have made terrible mistakes in Korea. We may be in the process...
...close of a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on the U.S. ammunition shortage (TIME, April 13 et seq.), Virginia's Harry Byrd clipped such excerpts of testimony and mailed them off to General Douglas MacArthur in Connecticut for comment. Last week, like a thunderclap from Olympus, came Mac-Arthur's reply...
...demonstration just about eliminated rival CBS as a competitor, even though the FCC approved CBS's whirling disk system 2% years ago (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950 et seq.) before a Government order shelved production of color sets. CBS President Frank Stanton has already indicated that to go ahead with CBS's incompatible system would be "tilting at windmills...