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Wrote Senator Truman: ". . . Our scrambled professional military setup has been an open invitation to catastrophe." As chairman of a special Senate committee, Senator Truman had studied the scramble at first hand. Thus he was able to recite a record of wrangling and over lapping of effort which, he said, had cost the nation millions of dollars, millions of wasted man-hours, had possibly endangered American lives. Some of the "countless instances" which have come within the Truman Committee's purview...
Circling slowly around the the room, Mrs. Grosser sized up each situation in a few minutes, played and then moved on to the next board and an entirely new setup. Winner of Radcliffe's Charles Eliot Norton fellowship, Mrs. Grosser took up chess six years ago. Last spring at New York, she won the United States Women's Championship by defeating Miss N. May Karff of Boston, former titlist, who held the championship for four years...
...addition to head coach Lamar, the Crimson Coaching setup this fall will have former Washington Redskin professional Chief Richard Tuckey as line coach. Floyd Stahl will handle the backfield, and Chief Piscol will tutor the ends. An informal schedule, similar to that of last fall, is planned for this year's Crimson eleven...
Amid an atmosphere of multi-colored hatching suits in an ideal California setup, Esther Williams and Red Skelton run through the paces of another trivial, escapist musical. The big surprise is that "bathing beauty" Esther can actually swim...
...Division, advancing southwest from the northern beachhead, found elaborate mine fields and gun positions off the former U.S. Naval Station at Piti. Casualties would have been heavy if the marines had landed there. Instead, they smartly flanked these and many other defenses. But the enemy was still no setup. He was fighting the same kind of savage rear-guard action he had fought on Saipan, where 21,036 Jap corpses had been buried, where 3,414 Americans were dead or missing...