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...Spoke at the Washington convention of the Military Chaplains Association, and pulled a blooper in patriotic etiquette. When the Marine Band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner, the President and the chaplains to his left faced the music; the chaplains to his right faced the American flag. The President & friends were wrong: Public Law 829 stipulates that it is always proper to face the flag, if one is displayed, during the playing of the anthem...
Last week, accompanied by three friends, Harr climbed to the top once again, there solemnly planted a banner with the strange device, "M." Henceforth, Mt. Harvard, Mt. Yale and Mt. Princeton will have company-a proud peak that will soon appear on the maps as Colorado Mines...
Under the M-K banner, Ferguson has shifted from a conservative fixed-fee (cost plus a set profit) operation to a more competitive unit-cost (one price for the job) contract. Says Morrison: "A business isn't worth a damn unless you get out and compete." In the first year under Morrison, Ferguson's gross climbed from $27.8 million to $73 million (net: more than $1,000,000), and its backlog jumped from $20 million to $85 million...
...grandstand and governor Christian A. Herter threw out the first ball, at least according to the announcer. No one, I believe, actually saw the Governor in all the crowd. The ball just popped out of somewhere and the cather grabbed it. Overhead a plane flew by with the banner, "Murphy for Governor." Scraps of paper descended in enthusiasm from the upper tiers and the shivering band played "Jingle Bells." No one laughed. There was that something in the air before a great event that stilled even the omnipresent crackling of peanut shells...
When Archie Alexander, a lifelong Republican, landed one day last week in pastel-painted Charlotte Amalie, the sign on the hangar that says "Harry S. Truman Airport" was tactfully shrouded by a big welcome banner. Next day Alexander, a Negro contractor from Des Moines, climbed up on the back seat of a crimson Chevrolet convertible and headed a brass-band parade up the Kronprindsensgade (Crown Prince Street) and down the Dronningensgade (Queen Street). At the Emancipation Garden where the Danes* freed their slaves in 1848, he was sworn in as the first Republican governor of the Virgin Islands...