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...proposed sale of American Overseas Airlines to Pan American World Airways. Last week Harry Truman sent him a brief, cool note of "best wishes" and accepted his resignation. Some thought that this was a hint that the President was ready to give Pan Am's merger the go-ahead...
...Democrats were solidly committed to FEPC in their party platforms, neither seemed willing to bring the fight for the bill into the open. By a 6-6 vote next day the powerful Rules Committee-which gives the red or green light for full-dress House debate -again refused a go-ahead for FEPC. Four Democrats and two Republicans voted for it; four Southern Democrats and two Republicans voted against...
From Maxim's corner, Manager Kearns kept up a stream of chatter: "Step back. Get out of it, Joey." His fighter, one ear cocked for instructions, did as he was told. In the seventh, Joey got the go-ahead signal. He began exploding left hooks and right crosses against Mills's jaw. He loosened two of Freddie's teeth; the champ's handlers fished them out of his mouth after the round. They fished out a third tooth after the eighth...
There were indications that the President had all but decided to signal a go-ahead to the scientists. If they were successful-as they believed they might be-the H-bomb would draw on the sun's method of transforming hydrogen into helium (TIME, Jan. 16) to produce an explosion dwarfing the atomic bomb blasts loosed at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Bikini, Eniwetok. One such H-bomb might spread destruction over a radius of ten miles...
...possible snag to the orchestra's further progress was the Taft-Hartley Act provision forbidding the A.F.M. to administer its royalty fund itself. But the new fund administrator, Philadelphia Lawyer Samuel Rosenbaum, gave the Old Timers the go-ahead...