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Washington's Warren G. Magnuson stood up on the floor of the Senate to read a letter. Written by a U.S. merchant seaman to an officer with the Seventh Fleet off the China coast, it said: "I am on a ship I am ashamed to be aboard . . . We are blockade running [to] Communist China. We are hauling thousands of drums of oil and gasoline . . . and steel armor plate, tools and parts to the damned Reds . . . If you guys sight us you ought to blow this [ship] sky-high even though she flies the American flag...
...names were mentioned in the Senate, but Isbrandtsen Co. Inc.'s rough, tough President Hans Isbrandtsen did not deny that the ship in question was his Flying Cloud. Isbrandtsen didn't like the author of the letter, though. He called him a "crackpot." This week, however, Senator Magnuson was planning to investigate the sailor's charges...
LEONARD A. MAGNUSON...
Taffy-haired Senator Warren ("Maggie") Magnuson, 43, a little late in winding up his vacation, missed the opening of the 81st Congress. At first his office spoke vaguely of "auto trouble." Friends injudiciously added that he had been doing the Seattle nightspots with lush, blonde June Millarde (known professionally in Hollywood pin-up circles as Toni Seven). Heiress to an estimated $3,000,000, Toni is the daughter of Silent Star June Caprice and Director Harry Millarde. While the tabloids were still eating up every new rumor, the Senator appeared in Washington. Had he and Toni been married...
...Magnuson, an orthopedic surgeon, succeeds Major General Paul R. Hawley. He helped Dr. Hawley reorganize VA's medical department. Now Dr. Hawley, in addition to his new job of unifying the Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance plans (TIME, Jan. 19), will help him by staying on as special assistant and adviser...