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...Ambassador Baron Robert Silvercruys, normally the very picture of diplomatic dignity, provided a giddy moment when he picked up his wife's train and did a few jolly jig steps in time to Marine Band music as the stately baroness (widow of Connecticut's late Senator Brien McMahon) strode elegantly into the East Room after dinner...
Police Sergeant John McMahon spoted smoke issuing from a window at about 11:15 p.m. His alarm brought two hook-and-ladder units and three engine companies. Firemen entered through the Club entrance on Bow St. and fought the blaze from the interior...
Time of the Giants. Along the receding frontiers, the war and postwar years were a time of giant strides and the expenditure of staggering sums for new aluminum plants, paper and pulp mills, bridges and roads. One of B.C.'s fastest moving entrepreneurs is Frank M. McMahon, 54, who waited, checkbook in hand, one morning in August 1947, when the province opened a land office in Victoria, to parcel out oil prospecting rights in the untested Peace River country. Chairman of the board of Calgary's fast-moving Pacific Petroleums Ltd., McMahon paid $1,800,000 for drilling...
...Milwaukee southpaw, working with only two days rest, dueled with three different Yankee pitchers only to lose in the 10th. Singles by Elston Howard and Yogi Berra finished him off, and the Yankees added the all-important extra run on Bill Skowron's single off relief pitcher Don McMahon...
...House passed, 345 to 12, and sent to the Senate the long-awaited Administration bill to soften the McMahon Act's atomic secrecy provisions. Under the bill the Administration would have discretion to tell any NATO ally the latest facts of the size and destructiveness of nuclear weapons, could also pass along, subject to congressional veto, nonnuclear components of atomic weapons for arming by the U.S. in the event of war. Any ally that had made "substantial progress" in its own atomic weapons program (i.e., Britain), subject to the same veto, could receive actual weapons designs, nuclear materials...