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...green and rolling acres would be split by the broad scar of an express highway. It was time to move on. But before their old bar was closed, before the silver trophies were packed for shipment, Deepdale's members decided to hold one more tournament on the trim fairways that have known such diverse golfers as William K. Vanderbilt and Dwight Eisenhower, Bing Crosby and Bobby Jones...
...Defamation League, hastily formed only a few days before, assembled in the spacious (definitely not split-level) dwelling belonging to an account executive of one of the larger New York advertising agencies. Clutching an unaccustomed cup of coffee, and reclining in a canvas chair that sagged gracefully beneath his trim figure, the host and chairman began...
...FREIGHT BATTLE between American Airlines, Slick Airways and Flying Tigers is cutting transcontinental flying time. Flying Tigers, which recently bought ten Lockheed Super Constellations (TIME, Oct. 3) to match a purchase of five by Slick, will trim its east-to-west schedules to clip nearly three hours off coast-to-coast freight runs. New York manufacturers will be able to ship cargo as late as midnight, have it on West Coast store shelves before opening time next morning...
This Moore-McCormack deal follows a similar one with American President Lines (TIME. Jan. 17), which called for 19 ships at a cost of $175 million. By these deals, the Maritime Board hopes to keep the U.S. merchant fleet in trim and prop up employment in U.S. shipyards...
...boss was Betty Brown, a trim, pretty redhead and a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Southern California. For Wouk, it was a clear case of love at second sight. Betty was a Protestant, but not a practicing one. She thinks now that part of Herman's appeal for her was that he made her see "that one didn't have to be a stupe to be religious." When Herman went back to sea, Betty Brown began studying Judaism, and a year later, on her 25th birthday, became a Jewish convert. Betty's Hebrew name...