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...level policymakers who boss Oak Ridge may have come to some such decision. One sign: 35 students from universities and industrial corporations were at large last week in the tightly guarded Clinton Laboratories, learning innermost secrets from Director E. P. Wigner. Strict security rules still gag this "College...
Hearst's Washington columnist, unpleasantly good-natured George Dixon, passed along a capital gag. It purported to explain why Harry Truman was late to a press conference: "He got up this morning a little stiff in the joints and he is having difficulty putting his foot in his mouth...
...Jolson Story is the first production job of an amateur: bantam-sized (5 ft. 2 in.) Hollywood gossip columnist Sidney Skolsky. While insisting that journalism is his profession, Skolsky has dabbled in picture-making for years, occasionally walking through bit parts as a gag or tossing out a helpful suggestion to studio executives...
Washington Calling. Harry Truman could stand it no longer. The day after he put a temporary gag on Henry Wallace, he called his Secretary of State on the transatlantic phone. The connection was bad. So he walked to the teletype in the White House communications room. In his mind's eye, no doubt, was the pale, birdlike face of Jimmy Byrnes bent over the teletype in the Paris Embassy. Across 3,800 miles the machines and the men began to talk...
...Gags. Phase 1 was a six-month whirl through the circulation and advertising departments of his father's Sun. Husky, willing Field IV started on a delivery truck, learned about street sales, home sales, customer complaints against carrier boys, sat around drinking with the drivers after work. Using another name (in Chicago, salesmen are not named Marshall Field except as a gag), he sold classified ads over the telephone. Then he took a fast fling at promotion copy and a quick look at the local, national and amusement advertising departments...