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Swimmer Shirley May France, 17, sailed for Europe to take another crack at the English Channel. Trim and chipper, she was eating two steaks a day, weighed...
...chief reason for these chipper tidings from the 99-year-old company was a sweeping mechanization program, which has been pushed close to completion by lean, indefatigable President Walter Peter Marshall. Onetime executive vice president of Postal Telegraph, Inc., 49-year-old Walter Marshall went over to Western Union when the two companies were merged in 1943, stepped into the top executive job when President Joseph L. Egan died in December 1948. The company had already started mechanizing but it was Marshall who pushed through an $80 million appropriation to do it fast...
...bells of the Kremlin tolled the May Day hour (10 a.m.) as Joseph Stalin, in fawn uniform and chipper mood, stood on Lenin's marble tomb to take the adulation of a million marchers. His son, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, flew above Red Square in the van of the mightiest Soviet air show; there were 64 four-engined bombers where last November there had been 22. "Comrades," orated Chief of Staff General S. M. Shtemenko, on the rostrum beside Stalin, "a crisis is approaching in capitalist countries...
...Philip Morris cigarettes). "Some words are pretty doggone hard-if I cain't pronounce them, I'll skip 'em," says Dean. "After all, as the fella said, I only went to the second grade." Helping him over the rough spots and big words is short, chipper Jack Farrell of the Yankees' publicity staff, who boasts that "I didn't get far beyond the second grade myself...
...showed off another product which can be used after each cup is emptied. It is the "Cory Made Maid," a 23-lb. electric dishwasher, compact enough to fit on the kitchen drainboard, cheap enough ($89.95) to undersell most existing electric models by more than 50%. With it, chipper Jim Alsdorf cockily predicted that he would revolutionize the home-dishwasher market...