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...fortune and a reputation as an administrator in industry (Emerson Electric), came to Washington as Truman's Surplus Property chief in 1945, later became the first Secretary of the Air Force. Moved to his present job last April, Symington for a long time was regarded as a calamity howler crying for more arms & men, but his pessimism was proved right by the defeat in Korea. While personally favoring more preparedness, he has loyally cooperated with the Administration's take-it-easy approach...
...howler, ruled Registrar George McCulley after a hasty examination of the new card supply. The printer had left out the "not" in all of them...
...sign. After the first seven students had signed, somebody bothered to read the pledge. "In the event of war with any foreign nation," said the card, "I will support or adhere to the government of such foreign nation." College officials blinked and blanched. Was it a hoax or a howler...
...first, the War Memorial board stood firm. "O.K.," cried Trustee Richard Newhall, "so I'm one of the heels of San Francisco . . .!" Later, he announced, "I never heard of this Madame Flagstaff till this came up." His opponents howled at his howler. Acting Mayor George Christopher raised his voice: "I don't give a damn about Flagstad. But I don't want the opera to die. I'd sing her roles myself first. Our culture is at stake." He calle'd on the War Memorial board to relent. The American Legion's national headquarters...
...asking SHALL WE SACK THE SHMOOS? Results of the poll last week swept the Shmoos out of Britain and back into the Valley of the Shmoon. For the Shmoo: 3,750. Against the Shmoo: 7,552. Admitted the Pic: "We dropped a brick. We pulled a boner, made a howler, a bloomer." For the benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called the Shmoos 'the greatest satire since Swift's Gulliver's Travels...