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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Arleigh Burke, 48, found himself at the center of a fight for which he was poorly equipped. His name had appeared on a list of 22 captains recommended by a Navy selection board for promotion to rear admiral. Then, mysteriously, the board was reconvened and ordered to do its work over again. When it had finished that time, Burke's name was not on the list. It had been replaced by the name of Captain Richard P. Glass, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews' 51-year-old aide, who would be retired from service if he were passed...
...Alger Hiss had progressed with a singular absence of melodrama. Whittaker Chambers spent seven days as a witness, much of the time under crossexamination, stepped down with both his testimony and his Buddha-like calm intact. His shocking tale was corroborated as before by his wife and a long list of Government witnesses. Voices were seldom raised; time and repetition had lent a curious matter-of-factness to an incredible affair...
...Toledo with his darkly lovely Jewish mistress. The love story lasted for seven years, and then the mistress was poisoned by Eleanor's agents. Alfonso, gnawed by both a guilty conscience and a dark suspicion that he was next on the poisoners' list, went home to Eleanor and atonement. Last week, almost 800 years later, the fruits of Alfonso's atonement were providing Spanish archeologists and medieval experts with one of their richest finds in years...
...that it could be done. In a Jack Sprat store in Ames, Iowa, he gave a customer a taste of a can of peas, succeeded in selling her an entire case instead of only one can. He persuaded a grocer on Manhattan's Third Avenue to keep a list of daily "specials" next to the telephone so that clerks taking orders by phone could suggest extra items. Concluded Cummings: salesmen need constructive sales suggestions from the front office, instead of a flood of letters demanding "more sales...
Heading Huber's list of "most active Communist front organizations" were the International Workers Order and the American Slav Congress...