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There was no doctor on the atoll (pop. 60)-but there was a radio ham, Steve Barnes. Barnes went to work, finally tuned in an old friend and fellow ham, Joseph Bonsted, 6,000-miles away.in Audubon, NJ. Said Barnes: "Joe, there's been an accident here. Can you get a doctor?" The nearest doctor was operating in the Audubon Hospital. Surgeon Ralph W. Davis paused long enough in his operation to give some terse instructions: "Tourniquets, loosened every 20 to 30 minutes, plasma transfusions. No morphine; he may have a fractured skull...
...himself paid a 30-minute visit to Lake Success, shook hands all around, signed an agreement on U.N. rights & privileges at its future site in Manhattan. In New York City, Mayor William O'Dwyer called on the citizens to join in prayer for U.N. In the Bound Brook, NJ. area, 7,856 people signed a scroll declaring their support of the Charter...
...official holiday in the town of Princeton, NJ. Mayor Minot (Mike) Morgan Jr., a Princeton University graduate ('35) himself, had urged all 7,719 townsmen to "lay aside normal tasks" in honor of the university. Flags hung from windows and fluttered from lamp posts. At 9:30, the presidential train from Washington pulled slowly into the station. Harry Truman, who never went to college, had come to get his tenth honorary Doctor of Laws degree and to help celebrate Princeton's sooth year...
...Humpty Dumpty told Alice, it was simply a question of who was master. After weeks of secret palaver in London, the Compagnie FranÇaise des Petroles withdrew its objections to the $200 million deal for Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. to go into Saudi Arabia (TIME, March 24). But Standard's announcement of settlement was tinged with annoyance: before the deal could be closed, it had to be approved by Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. And last week, Gulbenkian wasn't having...
Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) had "no cartel agreements with Farben." So said Robert T. Haslam, vice president, this week. He said that Standard had had "an agreement to purchase a large number of Farben's American patents for $35,000,000, plus turning over to them some of our patents. Those patents we purchased gave the U.S. synthetic toluol for TNT . . . 100 octane gasoline . . . buna rubber." The Dow Chemical Co.'s Willard H. Dow denied the cartel charge saying: "Those things have been very much distorted...