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...married Idaho-born Rosemary Cooper. During World War II, Bechtel-McCone operated an Army Air Forces modification center for B-24s and B-29s. At the same time, McCone became president and director of the California Shipbuilding Corp., and wearing two hats, launched himself into a 15-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week schedule. At Calship, Engineer McCone found ways to set production goals higher than anyone thought possible, saw to it that they were met. Result: Calship produced 467 ships worth a billion dollars. Since World War II's end he has taken over and built...
...Freedom) Radio Free Europe has served the West as an effective clearinghouse of news flowing in and out of the Communist orbit. When the anti-Soviet revolutions struck in Poland and Hungary, RFE was operating 29 high-powered transmitters out of West Germany and Portugal on a 20-hour-a-day basis to furnish the enslaved peoples with news reports, which the Communists tried to suppress by jamming. Last week RFE was attacked by West German papers and Bonn politicos, and caused some worried U.S. citizens (including NBC Commentator Chet Huntley) to ask a question. Had the RFE broadcasts actually...
From New Orleans' Schwegmann supermarket (whose bar dispenses brand-name liquor for 30? a shot on Sunday) to Los Angeles' $6,000,000-a-year, 24-hour-a-day Ranch Market, grocery stores now find that Sunday is the third biggest day of the week (after Saturday and Friday). As supermarket stocks have expanded in postwar years to include goods ranging from shovels to shotgun shells, discount houses, clothing stores, furniture and appliance dealers have turned to Sunday selling. Many department stores even hold "Sunday special" sales. For auto dealers, Sunday trade often amounts to 50% of total...
...Stevenson, however, the process of preparing one or two long speeches every day is hellish. His three secretaries who sleep as best they can on cavalcade tours, begin work usually after Stevenson's evening speech continuing into the early morning. But Stevenson, who is looking more each day like a 20-hour-a-day candidate, works harder and longer than any of his staff, reporters say. "If he breaks down," one newsman commented, "there'll be a real health issue in this campaign...
Bungles & Breakdowns. The most nightmarish grind on the campaign circuit is the chaotic 18-hour-a-day Kefauver schedule. Often up at 5 a.m., the reporters go through a jumble of airport receptions, several press conferences, street rallies, appearances at fairs and carnivals. Through it all, they suffer the repetitive drip torture of Kefauver's appeals for "the little fellow" (irreverently known among the reporters as "the pygmy vote...