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Labor of Love. They are getting it. Manhattan's Charles Michelson, Inc., which resurrected The Shadow, is also releasing eight other favorites in 52-week packages, including Dangerous Assignment, Famous Jury Trials and The Green Hornet. Detroit's Fred Flowerday, a former sound-effects expert, has acquired the licensing rights to two other oldtimers, The Lone Ranger ("Hi-Ho, Silver") and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon ("On, King, on, you huskies . . ."). To Flowerday, putting the Ranger back in the saddle is a particular labor of love: it was he who used to clomp a pair of rubber plumber...
...Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, 58, new commander of the Seventh Fleet, patrolling the Chinese Communist mainland, succeeds Moorer. A handsome, icy-cool carrier officer, Johnson served aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S.S. Yorktown and the U.S.S. Hornet. Promoted to flag rank when he was only 49, he became the first skipper of the U.S.S. Forrestal when it was the largest carrier in the world. "He set the pattern of how these ships should be operated," says one top Navy officer, "and it has stuck ever since...
...another voice that could yet stir up a hornet's nest was that of Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, a New Frontiersman and an influential member of the Armed Services Committee. Although he will probably vote to ratify the treaty, Jackson remained worried about the possibility of a Soviet doublecross...
...Gilbert Co., whose long-beloved Erector Set has been updated to include rocket gantries and moon vehicles, has a flying model plane, the Skyflash. Its gasoline motor has a new type of silencer to reduce the hornet's-nest buzz, and its wings and fuselage are made of high-impact plastic, which is strong, flexible and shatterproof...
...Midway. The turning point of the war, according to Toland, came at 7:24 a.m., April 18, 1942, when Jimmy Doolittle took off from the carrier deck of the U.S.S. Hornet at the head of 16 B-25s. Though the raid on Tokyo did little actual damage, Toland reports that Japanese officials were astonished to find that their capital was so vulnerable, concluded that the nation was likely to panic under sustained air attack. The result was the Japanese decision to invade Midway and the Aleutians, the likeliest U.S. bomber bases. Dangerously overextended, they blundered into the Battle...