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Because of the crucial importance of the strongholds at each end of the Mediterranean, and also because the Italian promontory and islands jut down into midMediterranean, the Battle fell from the first into two major spheres, Western and Eastern. Last week Winston Churchill confirmed this division by referring specifically to "the Western Mediterranean Fleet...
...Appointed as his fifth (of six) administrative assistants Sherman ("Shay") Minton, 50, defeated Senator from Indiana. Tall, black-haired, jut-jawed Mr. Minton, a 200% New Dealer, will get $10,000 a year; will not be used as liaison man with Congress-where his forthright tongue too often rasped colleagues...
...punchy," he said. "You tell me." Michael Todd, 33, is a small, dark, jut-jawed addict of cigars and green suits. He was born in Minneapolis, where he peddled papers, played a silver cornet in a boys' band until his father moved to the country to run a general store. Aged 12, Mike worked in a Chicago carnival pitch where anyone who could throw three balls into a bucket got a free duck. Mike's job was to sit hidden under a platform, jerk a string that made the balls bounce out if they happened to drop into...
...slander and vilification," and hurled insults at "silly old Bill Green," president of A. F. of L. He declared: "The labor movement cannot exist or function without confidence on the part of its members, each with the other, confidence that they will associate themselves together. . . ." The next day, jut-jawed, broad face pale, he delivered a bilious soliloquy, kindled bitterness on all sides...
...WHOM. Over its 1,000-watt transmitter are regularly aired programs in German, Italian, Polish, Greek, assorted other languages. But six times a week, near the end of its broadcasting day, WHOM goes enthusiastically native with George Braidwood ("The Real") McCoy and his sidewalk interviews from Times Square. Jut-jawed and sardonic, McCoy is a 36-year-old Harlem Irishman who got into radio via publicity, after working as swimming instructor, peddling Easter-egg dyes and canned clams...