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When Beshoar became chief of our Denver bureau four years ago, he was a highly competent newspaper reporter, who had learned his trade on Denver's Rocky Mountain News, the Des Moines Register and Tribune, and various Colorado dailies and weeklies. During the war he was regional chief of...
We were surprised that TIME, July 11 [in its report of the sweeping vindication of British press ownership by a Royal Commission] described the Daily Express as a "scandalmongering, penny paper." I cannot think that you would accept that as a true or fair description of the Daily Express.
...Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, stormed that the radio plans of "certain large distillers" were "vicious" and "reckless," and called the wavering radiomen "stupid." The Federal Communications Commission, which has indirect power to keep radio in line, reacted more mildly. FCC Chairman Wayne Coy was in Europe, and Commissioner-in-Charge Paul A. Walker would admit only that he had received some complaints against giveaway shows and other radio practices which he declined to specify. Said Walker soothingly: "The matter is under consideration, but I would hesitate to say anything until some conclusion [on liquor advertising] is reached...
The often-attacked Atomic Energy Commission submitted to Congress this week its sixth semiannual report, dealing mainly with its peaceful, nonsecret activities. The list of these is impressive, for atomic energy, as befits a revolution in human affairs, touches nearly every branch of science.
There is hardly a science that has not felt the touch of AEC. The commission is working on new alloys and other materials for the atomic age. It is deep in cancer research. Its program of making and distributing isotopes, both radioactive and stable, has worked a genuine revolution in...