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...year slot-machine-manufacturing business was wiped out with one stroke of a pen last week. President Truman signed a bill banning the one-armed bandits from federal property and prohibiting their shipment in interstate commerce. As soon as the new law went into effect, the military began a roundup of machines in Army and Navy officers' clubs around the U.S. On the West Coast the Army dumped 300 machines into San Francisco...
...Last Roundup. Although Boyd takes a human delight in making a fast buck, his attitude toward the licensed products which made him most of the $800,000 (before taxes) he earned this year is one of really Hoppy-like restraint. He has refused to license bubble gum, sharp-pointed tops, and nine out of ten of the other products on which he has been asked to put his name, and has insisted on reasonable prices and good quality before giving his blessing to manufacturers...
...Editor Stout covered world events with a special eye to Latin interests: a two-page lead on Puerto Rico's revolt and the attempted assassination of President Truman, a roundup of the Holy Year in Rome, a feature on the Spanish navy. But he also gave full accounts of the war in Asia, plenty of cheesecake, an updating on television and flying saucers. Editorially, Vision promised not to "take the side of any single country . . . or of any internal group of any nation...
...other bill was drafted by West Virginia's Harley Kilgore. The Kilgore bill as drawn would have left above-ground Communism strictly alone. But it provided for the roundup and mass detention of potential spies and saboteurs in times of national emergency...
...correspondents recently did a roundup on how the foreign press regards TIME and why we are getting so many requests to reprint TIME stories...