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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who left a comfortable senatorial seat to join the fight in Europe, was out of the army as a Lieutenant Colonel and back on his Massachusetts farm, drafting a public speech for next month's delivery. On future plans he was virtually mum: "I haven't ruled anything out or anything...
...ardently pro-atom U.S. Army was mum on the professor's suggestion. If it does lend its B-29s, the U.S. public will probably not be told about it. And if an experiment succeeds in setting up a chain reaction, it is possible that no living thing will be around to applaud.* For, if the scientists ever succeed in pulling the trigger...
James Roosevelt, lately of the Marines, who has kept mum on his postwar plans except to say that he has no political ambitions, took over as head of the Los Angeles County Democratic Committee's subcommittee on veterans' affairs...
Larry Bell's new streamlined helicopter will carry five people. But on all other details he was mum. Although the Civil Aeronautics Board has yet to approve it, Bell is confidently tooling up for volume production. By the first of the year, he hopes to start production of his first 500 helicopters...
General George S. Patton Jr. had kept mum for quite a while. It was unlike him. Last week, in Bavaria, where he is U.S. military governor, he broke the irksome silence, brandished his riding crop and informed the press: "Well, I'll tell you. This Nazi thing. It's just like a Democratic-Republican election fight...