Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once wrote you about Colonel John H. ("Mike") Michaelis reading a copy of TIME while he waited for the Air Force to blast Red concentrations then attacking his heroic 27th Regiment (TIME, Oct. 16). Two weeks ago I told you about the many letters we get from TIME-reading G.I.s and officers in combat. But John Warren Smith insists that there is "no need to go to distant lands to find people reading TIME under hardships." A former Columbia University graduate student, 22-year-old Private Smith sent me the following story to prove his point...
...armed forces buildup, only the Marines had failed to get their expansion orders. Last week two ex-Marines, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas and Montana's Representative Mike Mansfield, set out to remedy the situation. They introduced identical bills in the House and Senate, which would double the present Marine Corps (to 400,000 men in four divisions and four air wings) and make the corps commandant a full-fledged member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Forty-one Senators co-sponsored Douglas' bill...
...Michael DiSalle bustled around Washington with a satchelful of dummy regulations, pronouncements and memoranda. "When you bob a cat's tail," he explained, "you cut it off close to the body, not an inch at a time. Otherwise, you always have a sore tail-and a mad cat." Mike DiSalle's bosses in the mobilization high command agreed. All that remained was to determine just how close to the body to slice, and when...
...Mike Todd's Peep Show features some cleaned-up Scollay Square gags and a more appetizing chorus line. Burlesque followers can pick up this number at the Winter Garden...
...Again, On Again. Washington abounded in inflation by publication last week. Roly-poly Price Administrator Mike DiSalle dropped his plan for a 30-day price freeze after his boss, Stabilization Director Alan Valentine, vetoed it for lack of an enforcement staff...