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...Arlie said he wanted to see the world. He was sent to Korea. He fought there, and was taken prisoner by the Chinese Reds. families of the 23 "progressives" "could send to Korea. Eighteen families, including the Pates, accepted the opportunity to plead with their sons to come home. Fortnight ago, Howard Pate, 47, his wife Zady, Arlie's 18-year-old sister, Beulah, and Mrs. Jeanette Daley, Arlie's aunt, were driven up to station WCBS in Springfield...
From the day Chief Justice Fred Vinson died, four weeks ago, newsmen have been trying to find out who Vinson's successor would be. Everything pointed to Warren, but no reporter could pin down the story. Fortnight ago, when Attorney General Herbert Brownell flew to California to see Warren, the San Francisco Examiner's alert Political Editor Clint Mosher said flatly that Warren would be named to the court within 24 hours. Brownell himself threw cold water on the prediction. The afternoon he returned to Washington and saw Ike, he told reporters: "I have made no recommendation...
...that he himself had seen at least 80 partially crated jets rolling south on flatcars. "We made the armistice only to improve our military position," he reported a North Korean political officer as saying. U.S. airmen, who have been picking up MIG pips on their radars during the last fortnight, were not surprised. Lieut. Noh further revealed that, during the fighting, three Communist air divisions in North Korea were entirely manned by MIG-flying Russian pilots who wore Chinese uniforms...
...fortnight ago, Ramo and Wooldridge quit to form their own company; five other executives submitted their resignations. Last week Thornton and George quit, too. Said General George: "I would like to paraphrase Churchill. I do not intend to preside over the liquidation of the Hughes organization, and so help me God, if present policies are persisted in, the liquidation is inevitable." But Howard Hughes disagreed, said that only a handful of his 17,000 employees had left and that production would not be hampered...
...fourth television season, gets its weekly list of the nation's seven most popular tunes in a plain envelope from a research firm (known only to a few insiders) whose methods are kept secret. When the plain envelope arrived for the season's first show a fortnight ago, anxious Lucky Strikers ripped it open, were relieved to find that the fast-rising Ray Anthony hit recording, Dragnet, was way down in 19th place...