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...Uncle Joe Stalin is all right-a straight shooter. It's that doublecrossing little Molotov who causes all the trouble. He's trying to cut Uncle Joe's throat...
Chosen to be director of this administrative board was John Jacob (Jack) Kroll, plodding vice president of Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, assistant chairman of Hillman's P.A.C. Hillman's trouble shooter and Hillman's old and loyal friend. Other members were the secretary-treasurers of four of C.I.O.'s biggest unions: the steel Workers' David J. McDonald and the textile workers' William Pollock, who stand to the right of the political center; the auto workers' George Addes, whom U.A.W.'s Communist groups have long supported; the Communist-influenced electrical workers...
...Straight Shooter. The sensation of the meeting, however, was a brand-new type of machine which promises to outpower the cyclotron. Prosaically named the "linear accelerator," it is a tube which shoots its nuclear bullets straight instead of in a circle. The idea came from two crack young physicists, M.I.T.'s Julius Halpern and California's Luis W. Alvarez, who have developed separate versions of the machine...
...delegates saw a connection with Vice Commissar Vishinsky's unexplained absence from London. Was the Red Army about to blow its top? President Mikhail Kalinin had publicly admitted it would be tough to keep returning soldiers down on the farm (TIME, Nov. 19). Some observers guessed that Trouble Shooter Beria had been given the job of holding down discontent...
...Brown, canyon-mouthed cine-comic, followed Charles A. Lindbergh (TIME, Dec. 10) into the spotlight as a civilian Jap-shooter. In direct violation of the Hague Convention, U.S.O. Trouper Brown, whose son was killed in the war, rode a tank last summer in the attack on Bamban in northern Luzon, popped out with a carbine, blazed away, was credited with killing two Japs...