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TIME's Canada at War department, on the other hand, is only 19 months old this week-but already we have assigned a staff of four fulltime writers and researchers to the new department-lined up 13 of Canada's ablest young newsmen to serve as TIME correspondents-opened our own editorial office in Ottawa...
...went back to Ohio, got his degree). Once, when he was stationed at Self ridge Field, Mich., he almost quit the Air Corps to fly trimotored planes for Henry Ford. But he stuck and studied, and by 1937 he was recognized as one of the Corps's ablest celestial navigators. This led to his transfer to bombardment and the first B-17s. He navigated a flight 600 miles out to sea-a famous and daring feat in 1937-and came out of the overcast over his objective, the Italian liner...
Other Laborites who might be offered posts when Prime Minister Attlee completes his Cabinet: Aneurin Bevan, fiery ex-miner, one of Labor's extreme left wing; Ellen Wilkinson, fiery professional trade-union organizer; Michael Foot (Guilty Men), London Daily Herald columnist and the party's ablest pamphleteer; Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...
Moreover, as Snyder moved in, some of OWMR's ablest operators moved out. Vinson's fat, fast-thinking general counsel, Ed Prichard, would follow his boss to the Treasury; Don Russell, a Jimmy Byrnes protege who had handled much of the war production side, had gone with Byrnes to the State Department. Others were gone or going. Grey, bespectacled Boss Snyder would have to find a new staff...
...stiffest, ablest defense yet made by the Japs was put up on Okinawa. By last week, many a citizen and many a Pacific soldier saw significance in that fact when it was coupled with another. The second fact: on Okinawa more Jap soldiers surrendered than had ever surrendered before...