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Tireless Traveler Bob Hope breezed into Washington to receive from Secretary W. (for William) Stuart Symington the Air Force's Exceptional Service Award. Symington had just flown back from Waco, Tex., where he received an honorary LL.D. from Baylor University...
...hope of closing Britain's lead in jet transport planes, the Defense Department had recommended a $30 million congressional appropriation to build two jet transports. Last week Air Secretary Symington told the Senate Commerce Committee that the Bureau of the Budget had turned thumbs down on the bill to build the transports. It looked as if the U.S. would not get jet transports for a long, long time...
Squires (W), defeated Watis, 3-0; Ufford (H), defeated Symington, 3-0; Elliot (H), defeated Larson, 3-1; Rcisner (H), defeated Terry, 3-0; Glessner (H), defeated Maxon, 3-2; Sexton (H), defeated Friends, 3-2; Buickner (W), defeated White, 3-1; Miller (W), defeated Bell, 3-2; Sargeant (W), defeated Gastill...
Eloquence for Hire. Currently, Washington's most conspicuous ghost is President Truman's Clark Clifford (Economic Adviser Elliott Bell performs the same function for the Republicans' Governor Tom Dewey). Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington is supplied with speeches by young, cocky Steve Leo, onetime Maine newsman; Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan by ex-TIME Reporter Wesley McCune. General Omar Bradley's famed, soldierly prose is the product of Lieut. Colonel Chet Hansen, an ex-newspaperman who planned to leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host...
...Force's Secretary W. Stuart Symington backed up Vandenberg, and deplored the whole public airing of the country's military doctrines. "Lightning Joe" Collins denied any Army plot to swallow up the Navy's Marine Corps as had been charged in the Navy's case...