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...Milton Caniff was a widely imitated, $70,000-a-year success. His Terry strip was on the radio; a Douglas Fairbanks Jr. movie was in the works. Why give it all up? For a reason of his own, Caniff wanted more. In Florida, when he was 18, he was bitten by a mosquito and got phlebitis, an inflammation of the veins that made the Army-and insurance doctors-turn him down. Because of his quick-clotting blood, says Caniff, "even a bad bump on the leg could bump...
France's grey, portly Minister of Colonies Marius Moutet (close friend of Ho's when they were fellow socialists) left for Indo-China by air. So did hard-bitten General Jacques Leclerc, France's foremost armored forces expert, whom the Vietnamese bitterly hate. The cruiser Duquesne left Algiers with a division of paratroopers on board. At week's end there was talk of weakening rebel resistance and furtive peace feelers...
...British bitten off more than they could occupationally chew? The answer, underlined by last week's formalization of the U.S.-British zonal economic merger, was yes. The British zone had been a liability for Britain and a road block to Western European reconstruction. Coal production had declined steadily from a January 1946 high of 5,045,058 tons. Lack of steel, timber and building materials had halted reconstruction. Food rations, cut in February, were still at starvation levels...
First token that it was came from N.A.M.'s industrial relations committee, drawing up suggestions for a new federal labor policy. Some committee members, led by Chrysler Corp.'s finance chairman, B. E. Hutchinson, and the Michigan Manufacturers Association's hard-bitten general manager, John R. Lovett, were all for demanding quick repeal of the Wagner Act. But to committee chairman Clarence B. Randall, vice president of Inland Steel Co., plumping for outright repeal seemed just the sort of thing that had given N.A.M. a bad name in the past. N.A.M., said Randall, should be content...
...commotion that forced the authorities to alter their plans. But if the Alumni are a conservative force, they are also loath to exert active pressure on College officials. The word of the President or the Provost is generally, if not always, accepted as most authoritative by the hardest-bitten grad...