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General Douglas MacArthur holds two commands: Allied commander in chief of the Southwest Pacific Area (CINCSOWES-PAC), and commander in chief of Army forces in the Pacific (CINCAFPAC). Admiral Chester Nimitz also holds two com mands: commander in chief of Pacific Ocean Areas (CINCPOA), and commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC...
...House, led by Republicans and prodded by the Scripps-Howard press, cut OWI's appropriation from $42,000,000 to $18,000,000 - a slash which would just about end OWI's activities in Europe and at home. But last week, as the Senate Appropriations Com mittee pondered this action,-a galaxy of stars swooped to OWI's rescue...
Married. Harrison E. Spangler, 66, loyal, longtime GOPolitician, onetime chairman of the Republican National Com mittee (1942-44); and Mrs. Myrtle...
...enemy on Okinawa had been com pressed into a minute fraction of the island's area - no more than 20 of its 485 sq. mi.- and U.S. ground forces called for fire support from the fleet's guns to soften another stubborn line, the last on which the enemy could stand. Along the Yaeju-Dake escarpment, 3,000 yds. long, 600 ft. high, including a 300-ft. cliff, perhaps half of the 15,000 or so surviving Japanese were dug in. They had scores of fortified caves, from each of which they would have to be burned...
...greyer than the good, grey mother Times. It has had its production troubles : one night the paper was held up because a motorcycle messenger, rushing the wire-photos to the printers in Richmond, Calif., was arrested for speeding - and spent part of the night in jail. There have been com- petitive squawks: the San Francisco Chronicle protested the Times's use of A.P. wirephoto for the Times's private benefit. Facsimile also has posed a leading question: what good is an expensive local A.P. franchise if other publishers with A.P. news can muscle in from afar? (While making...