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...less than voluble Lieut. General Curtis E. LeMay. LeMay's main and somewhat irrelevant point was that the major U.S. blow should be "by strategic bombing." Would he vote for the Wherry resolution? "I don't know," said abrupt Curt LeMay, whose political interests are no wider than the flight deck...
...only difference between WXHR and its predecessor. Where WBMS operated on the AM band, WXHR uses Frequency Modulation, which is static free and has a greater tone range. Moreover, WXHR is on the air during the evening from five to eleven o'clock. This means that WXHR has a wider "good music" audience than WBMS which was required to signoff at sundown and therefore was limited to the housewife group. Thornton also feels that FM listeners are more progressive and intelligent, and that night time FM can become a possible competitor to television...
...request some form of universal national service from all our young men and women . . ." To clear the way for general inductions at 18, the top policy body of New York's public school system recommended that high schools pack their standard four-year courses into three. Suggested expedients: wider use of summer classes and, "in some instances," heavier study loads during regular semesters...
Jehangir "Muggy" Mugaseth, also a junior, is a stylist similar to Nawn, who learned squash in the shorter, wider English courts and is now adapting himself to the American game. Aliston Flagg, Dave Symmes, and Wister Wood are engaged in a close battle for the ninth and last position on the 'A' team, with Flagg currently on top. Both individually and as a team, the 1950 squashmen show great promise; they have started perfectly and could conceivably wind up with one of the top varsity records of the year...
...some fronts the no man's land between the armies was growing wider in spite of the slow, tentative advance by U.N. forces. Beyond Kapsan the U.S. troops pushed through Red lines to the Yalu River, effectively dividing enemy forces. A baffled Pentagon spokesman, asked by newsmen to explain Chinese strategy in Korea, described it as a "holding operation...