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Your statement (TiME, March 26) that the Duke of Windsor is "technologically unemployable, an obsolete man" shocked many of us in the film industry. We take issue with you on your flip and curt dismissal of a man who is one of the colorful figures of our time. As spokesman for a group of actors, writers and directors, I have today cabled the Duke of Windsor offering to form an independent producing company to star him in a pic-turization of his own life story, or a story of his own choosing, or the post of technical adviser...
What made the board flip-flop was Detroit's pugnacious young Foremen's Association of America, an independent union. To enforce its bargaining demands, it had called a series of strikes in Detroit's war plants (TIME, May 15-22), hog-tied war production. By giving in, NLRB hopefully expects to avoid further "industrial strife." But the dissenting board member, Gerard D. Reilly, snapped that the ruling smacks of a "peace-at-any-price" policy...
Path of Progress. In London, Polish Engineer Jan Horzelski announced his invention of a coin-flipping machine which can be adjusted to flip either heads or tails with 99% accuracy...
Milt Caniff, erstwhile creator of Flip Corkin, Terry, Pat, and the heralded Dragon Lady, may not realize the effect his oriental strip is having on the lives of many Chase luminaries. "Pass me my third Collins while I pass out" Smith (J.E. the folks call him) searched relentlessly up and down the corridor Saturday last but could not find "the lady." He did, however, find a tattered skivvie shirt sworn by him to be the property of "Hotshot Charlie...
General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, of the U.S. Army Air Forces, pinned the D.S.M. on the bemedaled chest of Colonel Philip Cochran, 34-year-old inspiration for "Flip Corkin" of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip. The citation: for crack performance in the first airborne invasion of Burma...