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With all due reverence for all concerned, may I suggest the role of W. C. Fields for Mr. Herbert Hoover in any film based on the life of the former gentleman? Your picture, hat & all, in TIME, Dec. 13 [see cut], prompts this suggestion...
...starting the ball rolling in the direction of rational and statesmanlike /'politicking" (at home anyway) . . . our great ex-President, Herbert C. Hoover...
Last week, a group of experts of the Hoover Commission* leveled further criticism at the unification plan. The committee reported that: 1) "the military services are far too prodigal with Government funds"; and 2) "the continuance of intense interservice rivalries hampers and confuses sound policy at many points...
Under the Roof. Defense Secretary Forrestal has insisted from the beginning that unification must be gradual. It is, he said, like trying to bring General Motors, U.S. Steel, Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward together under one roof. As the Hoover Commission noted, he had, after a year and a half of trying, made some "substantial progress." Some items...
...pound class--Silliman (W) decisioned Kozol (H), 11-4; 128-pound class-- Smith (H) pinned Berkman (W) with a body press in 7:22; 136-pound class-- Wach (H) decisioned Hoover (W), 5-3; 145-pound class--Stemler (W) decisioned King (II), 3-0; 155-pound class-Jones (II) decisioned Dolth (W), 5-1; 165-pound class--Ray (H) pinned Register (W) with a half nelson and body press in 2:06; 175-pound class--Louria (H) decisioned Keller (W), 10-6; Unlimited class--Houston (H) pinned Welsh (W) with a chancery...