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...Twin Weapons. Sam Morison writes with grace-and without ham-handed politeness. Interservice etiquette bothers him not at all. The soldiers at Makin were "miserably slow," and their fellows from the same division (the 27th) at Eniwetok were "all right but their training and leadership alike were poor." On the other hand, the 7th Division profited from Attu and was smart in the Marshalls...
...part in a paper-company loan (TIME, June 4), and the man who appointed the man who approved RFC's $645,000 loans to the American Lithofold Corp. Prince said that Lithofold had given him a $100 camera, perfume, crates of oranges, a turkey and a "small ham." But Prince knew just where to draw the line. "I don't think there is anything wrong in a box of oranges or a small ham," he said. What about a big ham? Answered Prince: "I would stop at twelve pounds...
...brash, a ham who can only live when he is surrounded by admirers, a yukster who thrives on the attention of millions but who longs for the simple life of the vaudeville stage...
...production is paced very fast, so fast that much of the humorous material flies by before the audience has a chance to realize what has happened. Playing a ham comedian, Silvers is forced to quip almost incessantly, a factor which becomes trying after the first hour...
Standing up before 200 scrap-metal dealers in Washington last week, Chief Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson angrily pounded his ham-sized hands down on the lectern. The Defense Production Administration, he said, had told him that steel production will be lower in the beginning of 1952 than in the last quarter of this year. Cried Charlie Wilson: "I just won't accept that answer. We have got to have at least a million more tons to distribute in the first quarter and another million or two million tons in the second quarter . . . Get this damn scrap...