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...Little Toehold. Then the bored Connally perked up. The Republicans' Harold Stassen appeared, to damn the Wherry resolution and coolly out-badger fuming and contentious Senator Kenneth Wherry. And the next day Thomas E. Dewey, in his first appearance before a congressional committee, dealt his isolationist colleagues one of the most demolishing forensic blows they had yet received...
Unable to get a toehold in conventional plane manufacture, M.A.C. made a virtue of necessity: it concentrated its research on jets. As a result, when the Navy decided to equip two carrier squadrons with jet fighters after World War II, McDonnell was ready with his twin-jet 500-m.p.h. Phantom. The Navy liked the Phantom so well that it ordered 235 of the plane's heavier, faster sister, the twin-jet Banshee, has since greatly stepped up its orders...
Television looked more & more promising. Some of last week's developments: ¶ The Theatre Guild got a well-pedicured toehold in the medium. The first of six Guild-NBC productions, a full-dress treatment of John Ferguson* was presented over NBC. Each play would require four weeks of production, unmentionable costs (mostly paid by NBC). Said Guildsman Lawrence Langner: "We want to communicate culture, not nonsense; to elevate television from the saloon to the living room...
...week, the Americans came close to completing the first phase of their three-weeks-old offensive. The second phase-penetrations of the mud-ugly, coal-rich Saar River valley-had already begun this week. In one bold move the Americans seized a bridge across the Saar, got a first toehold in the Saar's Siegfried Line defenses...
Before the Marines and Army infantrymen had well secured their toehold on Saipan, in the Marianas, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, veteran of Attu and Tarawa, was ashore with them. He radioed...