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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The first wave of Japanese bombers over Manila 17 years ago turned John Linehan from a civilian Navy employee into a fighter. Linehan rushed repairs on a destroyer, burrowed through bomb rubble for precious parts, on Christmas Day watched U.S. ships slip safely out to sea ahead of the invading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: By the Book | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Deus ex Machina. His wartime success got Jack a job in Hollywood shortly after he came home. RKO and later 20th Century-Fox put him under contract but rarely got around to putting him in front of a camera (he did once play opposite an unheard-of starlet named Marilyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Late-Night Affair | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., a woman mailed 400 Christmas cards on the day before the fateful Aug. 1 with stickers that read: DO NOT OPEN BEFORE DECEMBER 25. In Chicago somebody mailed a letter with a 3? Statue of Liberty stamp plus a penny, stuck to the envelope with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POST OFFICE: Now Lincoln! Now Bolfvar! | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

Thus last week the U.S., in a mixed-up, 20%-above-normal, Christmas-like post office rush, anticipated the increase of postal rates from 3? to 4? (lavender-colored Lincolns or gold-colored Bolivars) for first-class letters, from 2? to 3? for postcards, from 6?: to 7? for domestic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POST OFFICE: Now Lincoln! Now Bolfvar! | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

At war's end his career and Navy prestige hit a new high when, as Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel, he got the job of executing the decision to demobilize most of the 3,300,000-man Navy fast -"boys home for Christmas." Holloway did the irksome job in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Restrained Power | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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