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...cornerstones of Hearstian journalism is righteous editorial indignation which leads to crusades and, hopefully, to bigger circulation figures. Hearst editors are prepared at a moment's notice to turn the heat up under such standbys as vivisection and habit-forming drugs. Last week they were given a new target: salacious books...
...Marshall Holloway stayed all night aboard the LSM with two assistants to set the controls so that Helen could be detonated by radio signals. At dawn Holloway's team (and three other men who had been overlooked aboard a target ship) were taken off. Bikini was deserted save for its guinea-pig ships with their white mice-and Helen...
...into the forward part of her island had been blown across the deck. Like other vessels in the inner ring, she had been swung around so that her bow faced the detonation point. But the force which had done this had finished the Sara. The only vessel in the target array with a triple-skinned hull, she had nevertheless been ripped open below the waterline. Slowly she settled, listing ever more sharply; seven hours later the 33,000-ton carrier sank...
President Truman presided at the press conference, but Politician Truman made the news. Like a man itching to peel off his coat and get into a backyard brawl, he announced that he was out to beat a Democrat who had obstructed his policies in Congress. His target: conservative Representative Roger Caldwell Slaughter of Missouri's Fifth District, onetime neighbor of County Judge Harry Truman and now a candidate for renomination in the August 6 primary (TIME, July...
...Chicago, a committee of bigwigs of both leagues mulled it over, made a precedent-breaking decision: before they draft next year's uniform contracts (containing rules for individual player contracts), they will listen to grievances of player-spokesmen from all clubs. Probable first target of the players: the "reserve clause," which makes a contract binding on a player but allows a club to terminate it on ten days' notice. Other likely demands: a minimum salary ($5,000 or more) and a share in the profit when owners sell players to another club...