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...military records. The Staunton, Va. News-Leader chided: "President Eisenhower may have forgotten his own Kasserine Pass defeat and the breakthrough in the Bulge; Marshal Montgomery his excruciating slowness in hitting the Germans after the initial Rhine crossings.'' Columnist Anthony Harrigan argued in South Carolina's Charleston News & Courier that Eisenhower was "not an actual battle leader [but] a sort of super military executive director." And on the theory that Lee and Meade should have equal time to reply to their critics, an editorial in the Scripps-Howard papers took the ghosts of Gettysburg's commanders...
...hands last week. At several Atlantic coast ports, in a jurisdictional row, pickets from A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions challenged access to some half-dozen Liberty ships owned by American Coal Shipping, Inc. A part owner of A.C.S.: United Mine Workers. At week's end the pickets in Charleston, S.C. were gone, shooed away by court injunctions obtained while Employer Lewis sat by-unprotestingly, at the very least...
...Wander. In Charleston, W. Va., arrested for petty larceny when police found her carrying a suitcase stuffed with four sheets, four pillow cases and two towels belonging to the DuPont Hotel shortly after she checked out, Nora May Miller burbled: "Why, I wonder how all that got there...
...Pinch. In Charleston, W. Va., hiding under a hotel bed to trap two men and a woman on liquor and prostitution charges, Vice Detective George Robertson got wedged under the springs, held out his badge to make the arrest, got unwedged when the bed was lifted...
...earlier age (beginning at 14 for girls) than their big-city cousins. They are also quicker to "go steady." ¶ Teen-agers laugh at parents' fears that rock 'n' roll is a menace to morals. They regard it merely as a "revved-up version of the Charleston or Lindy hop." What impresses editors more than such findings is Gilbert's pitch, backed by statistics, that "your future circulation depends on this youth market." Gilbert and his newspapers assume that young people are just as curious as their eternally puzzled elders to get the answers on problems...