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...assembly line that could turn out a complete set every 40 seconds, set up a three-month training course for new workers. Harvey also kept Tele King ahead technically by being among the first to switch production to rectangular-tube sets and by developing cheaper cabinets. Remembering the PT-boat hulls molded from plywood, he got a PT-boat maker to turn out for Tele King "seamless" cabinets whose top and sides are molded from one piece of mahogany plywood...
...vice president of an insurance company, had been cleaning up his business before the weekend. He had just missed the 9:03 and had phoned his wife in Merrick, L.I. that he would be an hour late getting home. John Weeks, 30, a contributing editor of TIME and a PT-boat skipper in the Pacific war, had been to a Mexican movie on which he was planning to do a story. Weeks's wife and two small sons were waiting for him in Merrick. Steeil, Miller, Weeks and twoscore others rode in the head car, the smoker, some reading...
Died. John Miran Weeks, 30, wartime PT-boat skipper in the Pacific, contributing editor of TIME; in a train wreck at Rockville Centre, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...opening campaign speech, young Jack Kennedy recalled a promise he had made when he was a PT-boat skipper in the Solomons. Said he: "When ships were sinking and young Americans were dying ... I firmly resolved to serve my country in peace as honestly as I tried to serve it in war." His method of serving was to try for Congress as a Democrat from Massachusetts' Eleventh District...
Married. Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White, 28, brainy onetime Colorado halfback (All-America 1937) and Rhodes scholar, lately a PT-boat skipper, now a law student at Yale; and Marion Stearns, 24, ex-WAVE daughter of University of Colorado President Robert L. Stearns; in Boulder, Colo...