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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chase. In Los Angeles, Rosemary McCarthy, 27, asking for police protection from her suitor, John L. Hall, complained: "He follows me to work . . . tries to take me home . . . chases me . . . whistles at me from behind trees and peers at me from behind pillars . .. leaps out at me on the street . . . scares me witless by jumping at me from doorways." Protested 74-year-old Hall to police: "This is proper conduct for a man wooing a woman...
...Secretary of War from the pre-Pearl Harbor Lend-Lease campaign until after V-J day, Elder Statesman Henry L. Stimson never wavered in two firm convictions. One was that ultimate victory could be assured only by a cross-Channel invasion of Europe. The other was that the sooner the invasion came the better. In the first excerpts from his wartime autobiography, published in the January issue of the Ladies' Home Journal,* 80-year-old Henry Stimson this week gave his account of the battle he fought for adoption of his strategy...
...leading, candidate was the External Affairs Department's experienced, able Under Secretary Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson. No, said Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Canada needs him at home. The next suggestion was General Andrew G. L. McNaughton. But the P.M. thought that McNaughton had his hands full as Canada's atomic-energy specialist. Then the P.M.'s advisers proposed Dana Wil-gress, former ambassador to Russia. Just the man, the P.M. thought-until he learned that Wilgress, now at the I.T.O. meeting in Havana, was exhausted and would not accept the job. Other candidates...
...average American man today can expect to live to be 68; but some doctors think he should live to 150. The lower animals do much better than man. Said Dr. Edward L. Bortz, president of the American Medical Association, last week: a dog is full-grown at two years, lives to an average twelve; a cat is full-grown at ij, lives to ten; a horse, full-grown at four, reaches 25. Reasoned Dr. Bortz: "If a man is physically mature at 25, then he should have an average normal life span of 150 years...
Shelved. The Glenn L. Martin Co.'s high-altitude "3-0-3" passenger plane, designed for short hauls, has been shelved. Reason: lack of orders and working capital. The Martin Co. expects to have an operating loss of $36,000,000 this year. Despite tax carry-backs of $20,500,000 and an RFC loan of $26,775,000, the company has just enough working capital on hand to fill Martin's military orders and continue the production of the "2-0-2," a slower, non-pressurized version...