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...CJ Major General Charles Trueman Lanham (ret.), 53, Dwight Eisenhower's chief press officer in SHAPE (and "prototype" of Colonel Cantwell, hero of Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees), is slated to be board chairman of Colt's Manufacturing Co., which was taken over last week by Penn-Texas Corp. (TIME, Oct. 3). Born in Washington, B.C., West Pointer "Buck" Lanham wrote poetry until it interfered with his Army career, later edited Infantry in Battle, a widely used Army textbook. In World War II, he fought through Normandy and the Bulge with the 22nd...
...CJ Beginning early in an effort to rejuvenate a last-place ball club, the Pittsburgh Pirates named ex-Dodger Bobby Bragan, 37, to replace Manager Fred Haney, fired at the end of this year's disastrous season. An infielder who switched to catching while playing with the Phillies in 1942, Bragan moved to the Dodgers in 1943 and hung on until 1948. Since then, he has been a minor-league manager in Fort Worth and Hollywood...
...dropped them from a first-place tie to No. 3, one game out. The Boston Red Sox kept coming, powered by Homer-hitters Grady Hatton, Ted Williams, and Eddie Joost; they knocked off the hapless Athletics, 14-2, wound up only 3½ games out of first place. CJ In Philadelphia, green-eyed Barbara Breit, 17, defeated Mexico City's Maria Reyes, 6-2, 6-1, to win the U.S. girls' grass-court tennis championship for the second straight year, then joined Diane Wooton, to take the doubles...
Cheese & Scarves. Many U.S. tariff policies are still geared to the outdated habits of a nation trying to get onto its economic feet. Others are contradictory, and even self-defeating. Examples: CJ U.S. Marshall Plan experts helped the Danes expand their blue-cheese industry, so that Denmark could earn the dollars it needed to buy U.S. goods. But when the Danes started selling their cheese, the U.S. imposed a quota to keep all but a sliver of foreign blue cheese out. CJ The U.S. lays great stress on the 1921 Anti-Dumping Act, which protects domestic markets from the unfair...
...Anthony Eden as Red China's first official diplomatic envoy to Britain. His appearance is a little belated. London has kept charges d'affaires in Peking for nearly five years. They have spent most of the time cooling their heels in the waiting rooms of petty functionaries. CJ Prepared to receive two delegations of British businessmen, representing such gilt-edged capitalists as the Federation...