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...Burris Atkins Jenkins, 75, liberal theological maverick who ran a nondenominational Kansas City (Mo.) Community Church; onetime editor and publisher of the Kansas City Post; after long illness; in El Centre, Calif. He once advised Boy Scouts to play pool (good recreation), dance (eliminates dangerous sex manifestations), sock the other fellow (boxing is a manly art), stop expecting Dad to be a pal (he is too old to be more than a friend...
After taking a fourth-round sock on the jaw, he stood his ground for the next eight rounds, coolly exploiting the art of hitting and not being hit. Then, realizing that he was far ahead on points, Hartford Willie coasted to his 86th victory in 87 professional fights...
...Kimmel's staff, and the scratch staff which had served Pye during the last days of December. In particular, Nimitz had to appraise balding Captain Charles H. ("Sock") McMorris, Kimmel's war plans officer, who had said (a week before Dec. 7) that Japanese airmen would never surprise Pearl Harbor. In BuNav, Nimitz had seemed a hard executive, despite his amiable manner. He had found the Bureau slack, and had made it taut. The officers whose careers had seemed blasted by Jap bombs and torpedoes expected Nimitz to sweep them all out to some naval Siberia...
...expert staff which moved with Nimitz was at once the measure of his past achievement and a largely contributive cause of his continuing success. His chief of staff now is Sock McMorris, most noteworthy of the officers salvaged from Pearl Harbor. In charge of war plans is Fuzz Sherman, advocate of the fast task force after Pearl Harbor. But the boss of his staff is, as always, Nimitz, the fleet's human gyrocompass, always on the true plane, always on course for Tokyo...
...ardent Bing Crosby fan, and the other who thinks him an annoying crooner. Bing, as a sobbing singer--genus Sinatraensis--falls for the twin who will have none of him. In the course of action the Waves get both Betty Huttons, Bing gets the sensible sister, and the bobby-sock twin gets left with Sonny Tufts, who doesn't seem to care...