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Died. Albert Payson Terhune, 69, world's most prolific and successful writer of dog stories (Lad: A Dog;Buff: A Collie; etc.); in Pompton Lakes, N.J. He wrote stories about human beings for more than 20 years before he sold his first dog story. A jut-jawed, athletic heavyweight, who had boxed exhibition bouts with James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Jeffries, he wrote eleven hours a day, six days a week for some 30 years. His kennels, Sunnybank, became the most famed collie kennels...
Their bags were phenomenal: 50 Jap planes in one week, according to some accounts. Their casualties were low: five pilots killed, a greater but unannounced number of planes lost up to last week. On their fuselages they daubed their crest: a jut-toothed tiger, flying through a Victory V (TIME...
...Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary to Bangkok is keen, spare, mild-mannered Willys Ruggles Peck. His joints jut out like scaffolding joists. His Chinese-yellow skin is stretched tight over a shrunken skull. Peck is one of the most tactful, tightlipped, affable men in the State Department, with an Oriental knack for getting what he wants while he lets you think you are walking all over him. If anybody-can hold Thailand safe for democracy, Peck...
...rose boyish, jut-jawed James S. Adams, OPM's automotive production head, at home executive vice president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, but no soft-soaper. "No," said he slowly, "you cannot get priority ratings for materials going into passenger cars." The quotas, he continued, were only a maximum. Let the industry make that many cars if it could...
...that the American League pennant was already in the bag. The smooth, smart, smitey New York Yankees, with a Murderers' Row comparable to that of Babe Ruth's day, had won 45 of their last 50 games, were twelve games ahead of the second-place Indians. Even jut-jawed Joe McCarthy, most modest manager in the business, admitted that nothing but a catastrophe could stop his Yankees from bagging their fifth pennant in six years...