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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Passing of the Third Floor Back, with Paulette Goddard and Sir Cedric Hardwicke...
William Theodore Evjue, the firebrand, muckraking owner and editor of the successful (circ. 40,181) Capital Times of Madison, Wis., likes tough, independent reporters who are not afraid to talk back to him. Reporter Cedric Parker, 42, had measured up to the boss's standard almost too well. In his 21 years on Evjue's staff, Parker had earned a reputation as a crack reporter by such stunts as storming into tough gambling joints one jump ahead of raiding policemen. Reckless, hard-drinking Reporter Parker had also earned a left-wing reputation as a local C.I.O. official...
...Navy retaliated with a concentrated campaign against the Army's present service bomber, the B-36. A civilian employee named Cedric Worth drafted an "anonymous" letter, with the help of some interested friends, denouncing the B-36 as a slow and eminently vulnerable airplane. The letter also hinted that the awarding of the B-36 contracts had involved political skulduggery. Worth's letter was picked up by Congressman James Van Vandt, Pennsylvania, a Navy man himself, and aired before an investigating committee this summer. Most of its charges were neatly shot down by the B-36 men. And the Navy...
...Deserves Help." Crommelin admitted that he had encouraged Cedric Worth, then a civilian assistant...
...promptly suspended Worth, and ordered a court of inquiry to find out just how many other Navymen had helped him to put his statement together. The Navy board would have company. Carl Vinson and Committee Counsel Joseph B. Keenan also promised that they would get to the bottom of Cedric Worth's undercover campaign against the Air Force and the Administration. Most committee members believed that Bureaucrat Worth could not have done it without a lot of help from Navy officers...