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Fifth Ballot et seq. If Dewey has failed on the third, and Vandenberg has not shown a commanding upsurge on the fourth, the race will go to the best behind-the-scenes trader-Speaker Joe Martin, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, California's Governor Earl Warren or anybody else on whom the party's leaders can agree...
Though he has publicly shown just one handmade model, Preston Tucker has somehow managed to raise over $20,000,000 to finance production of his rear-engined Tucker '48 (TIME, July 7 et seq.). Last week, Promoter Tucker announced an ingenious scheme (which the SEC is carefully watching) to raise millions more. He wanted to sell radios, seat covers and other extra accessories to prospective car buyers for $270 a set. They could take delivery in six weeks or wait until their cars are delivered. In return for paying for the extras now, the purchasers would get a priority...
When it bought the Biro ball-point patents for $1,600,000 (TIME, Nov. 12, 1945) et seq. Eversharp hoped to capture the pen market. But many another company, notably Reynolds Pen, got there first and skimmed the cream off. When Eversharp did get its pen out, it ran into the same trouble that plagued the other ball-point penmen: the pen did not write well...
General MacArthur had a new press-agent last week, and Tokyo correspondents hoped for a new deal on news. Ex-General Frayne Baker, blamed by the reporters for much of the censorship trouble they had encountered in covering the Occupation (TIME, Feb. 2 et seq.), was transferred. His replacement was Colonel Marion P. Echols, 48, onetime P.R.O. at West Point...
After the massacre of eight Negro convicts at a Georgia highway camp last July (TIME, July 2 et seq.), a Glynn County grand jury decided that Warden H. G. Worthy and four camp guards were justified in firing on the prisoners. Last week, at nearby Savannah, a federal grand jury thought differently. It indicted the warden and his guards for depriving the Negroes of their lives without due process...