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Even the McCarthy-backing "Committee for Ten Million" developed a major chink in its armor. General (ret.) James A. Van Fleet, the committee's biggest name, fired off a telegram to McCarthy saying that he was "shocked by your personal bitter attack," which "causes me to withdraw all support...
They have dropped more than that in profits. Last week only four of the seven* Manhattan dailies were making money. Operating in the red were the liberal Republican Herald Tribune; the hard-hitting Republican World-Telegram and Sun, flagship of the 19-paper Scripps-Howard chain; and the banner-lining Journal-American, home paper of William R. Hearst Jr.'s 16-paper chain. The august Times, the sassy News, the Fair-Dealing Post have been making money, and so, reportedly, has Hearst's tabloid Mirror. But all their profit margins are down...
...World-Telegram and Sun has followed the trend toward less news, more entertainment. But the paper has lost the verve and excitement of the old World without even keeping the stodgy completeness of the Sun. The Telly (circ. 531,469) has been able to hold only one-third of the readers it took over when it merged with the Sun in 1950. Its ads have declined, and its loss this year is estimated to be more than...
...Your Duty." But next day, Sir Winston appeared in Commons in a much different mood. Laborite Emanuel Shinwell apologized for bringing up unpleasant subjects so soon ("Quite right. Do your duty," said Churchill), but Shinwell wanted details of the telegram Churchill had declared he sent to Field Marshal Montgomery in 1945 ordering Monty to stack surrendered German arms so that German troops might use them if necessary against the advancing Russians. Churchill was serious, pale and penitent. Shaking his head remorsefully, he confessed that when he made the statement (TIME, Dec. 6), he was "under the rooted impression" that...
...natives were coming out of church, he swooped into a three-point landing on New Zealand's Rakahanga island, a full 1,000 miles away. A government clerk spotted the note clipped to the wing, and relieved the errant frigate of his burden. It took a telegram, many more days, a set of stamps, two airplane trips, a boat trip and the combined efforts of both the New Zealand and French postal systems to undo the work of the bird who flew not wisely but too well...