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...Korean correspondents call "Operation Clam-Up," a restriction on the press which stems from an order by Major General Paul D. Adams, the Eighth Army's chief of staff. Adams, angered by unfavorable stories, e.g., Operation Smack and the uproar over the 65th Infantry (TIME, Feb. 2 et seq.), passed the word down that there had been too much "irresponsible talk" and that he did not want a "gabby" army...
...confidence seemed well grounded. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, believes that RFC has long outlived its usefulness. Missouri's freshman Democratic Senator, Stuart Symington, the man who put RFC back on its feet after the mink coat and Lustron scandals of 1951 (TIME, Feb. 12, 1951 et seq.), is not expected to come to the agency's defense. Even enthusiastic RFC backers might go along in the liquidation if some other agency e.g., the Federal Reserve, were to take over the RFC function of small-business loans...
...Stevens A 42-year-old Detroiter who rose from filling-station grease monkey to millionaire, Stevens was in the group that bought Manhattan's Empire State Building for $51 million a year ago "because it looked like a cheap piece of real estate" (TIME, June 4, 1951 et seq.). To him Boston is another such property...
...United Nations try to legislate freedom of the press throughout the world, U.S. editors and diplomats alike have regretted the proposal. Nations where the press has little freedom quickly seized on the proposal as a method to hamstring press freedom rather than help it (TIME, March 10, et seq.). Last week the restrictionists won their first, clear victory...
When William Bradford Huie took over the American Mercury two years ago, he promised to "recreate" the magazine in the great tradition of its first editor, Henry L. Mencken. But Bill Huie, who has been in hot water before with his books and articles (TIME, May 30, 1949 et seq.), found himself in trouble again. Almost at the start, he fell out with his backer, Manhattan Millionaire Clendenin Ryan. Five months ago the Mercury owed so much money that Huie was ready to close down. In time's nick, Huie found an angel: J. (for John) Russell Maguire...