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Through Red Tape. But the President's ire against Smith was nothing compared to the anger of the 22 correspondents on the trip. The dustup was over the newsbeat Smith had scored on the Wake meeting by breaking an agreement with his peers. At Wake, the correspondents had to share a single radio teletypewriter to Honolulu. As a result, they agreed to pool the first communiqué from the conference and send it as a joint dispatch to the three wire services, United Press, Associated Press and International News Service. When the communiqué-the only real news...
...whole dustup was hardly calculated to win much sympathy for the rebellious Navy. When the House Armed Services Committee re-opened its investigation of the B-36, Navymen would get their chance to make their case against the Air Force theories of strategic bombing. But there was not much point in blaming the unification law for their troubles. "It's like shouting out against the abolition of slavery," one vice admiral admitted. "Hell, it's the law of the land...
...those who think a Harvard biddie is a meek, Maude Adams wisp of a woman who glides unseen and unheard through the monastic suites with pail and dustup, the life of one Crimson editor will seem a complete enigma. Mrs G. . . . to whom he wistfully refers as "the woman who allegedly cleans my room," is a German fran of no mean tonnage and poundage, who keeps both him and his roommate completely under her thumb. Unfortunately for his relations with his redoubtable keeper the editor is far from the paragon of neatness, and at any given time his bedroom looks...