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Iowa to Christmas. Pearl Harbor found Jim Holloway 43 years old, a commander in charge of the gunnery section of the office of Chief of Naval Operations. He put in for sea duty soonest, was cited by the Navy Secretary for "aggressive fighting spirit" while commanding Destroyer Squadron Ten in the North Africa landings. He got the Legion of Merit for a brilliant training job commanding the Atlantic Fleet's Bermuda-based shakedown group for new destroyers and destroyer escorts. In late 1944 he pleaded against Navy Secretary Jim Forrestal's ruling that he must stay...
...would provide a new operational weapons system than it was in winning a round in psychological warfare. In the end the meeting agreed only that 1) the atomic-plane project needed more study, and that 2) the group would get together again to consider the results of that study soonest-"but not next week...
When Los Angeles Art Dealer Martin Lowitz sends a cable to an obscure artist calling for "200 Braques, 15 by 22, soonest," he is ordering guaranteed, authentic, tried and (in a way) true pictures- painted by a skilled imitator's hand. No ordinary purveyor of paintings, Dealer Lowitz is busy answering the bothersome question raised by hotelkeepers and other custodians of public and private buildings: What to put on the walls? Lowitz' answer: "original" paintings. In providing that answer, genial, garrulous Martin Lowitz, 61, has become the founder and entrepreneur of the world's biggest, and perhaps...
While Cairo's foreign press corps worriedly met to plan some defense against expulsion, Correspondent Stevenson flew to Rome and, in the black-and-white Japanese kimono that he wears while writing, pounded out the reply to his office's urgent cable to FILE STORY SOONEST MOSTEST BESTEST. Star readers soon learned in glittering detail that Stevenson first offended the Egyptians by trying twice in the same day-and getting arrested both times-to get an interview with Ex-Premier Mohammed Naguib, under house arrest 15 miles out of Cairo. What riled the Egyptians even more...
...conscience, and his security officer fears that he has two consciences . . . He is unhappy between his scientific creed and his social loyalty: between, that is, the long and triumphant tradition of open publication, and a society which still hopes to survive by the peasant adage, 'Least said, soonest mended...