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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days later Johnson followed up that threat with a major personnel change which looked like the first crackdown. Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, wartime task-group commander, was relieved of his post as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and made Commander in Chief of the stripped-down Pacific Fleet (TIME, April 4). Able, popular "Raddy" Radford would get the four stars of a full admiral, but officers of the Navy and the other services got the point: Radford had been the most articulate, determined foe of what the Navy regards as an Air Force threat to the functions...
...Times muffed its last real chance when the Scripps brothers let Editor Bill Townes quit because they were unwilling to back up his robust, crusading news policy (TIME, March 15, 1948). It was the same policy that E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, grandfather of Ed and Jim, had used to build his chains. Townes had boosted circulation to 47,077; by last week it had slumped back to 40,500, and local advertisers were throwing their busi ness to the rival News-Tribune, the city's only other daily (circ...
...Told (Fulton Oursler's rewrite of the New Testament), Lloyd Douglas' The Big Fisherman, and Father James Keller's account of the Christopher movement, You Can Change the World. Some hard-boiled book men are cynical at the suggestion that this betokens a "trend." Said Robert W. Faith of a St. Louis Doubleday bookshop: "Some books on two themes always draw interest . . . those on sex and those on religion...
...this prove a memorable day!" Rogers, a former professor of natural philosophy at the University of Virginia, began his school in one room of Boston's shabby Mercantile Building. By the following fall, he had a faculty of ten (including Harvard's future president Charles W. Eliot); by the time he died 17 years later, in the middle of a commencement speech, M.I.T. was well...
Kinsey Distilling Corp., Continental Distilling Corp. and W. A. Haller Corp., all subsidiaries of huge Publicker Industries, Inc., pulled the cork by cutting whisky prices an average of 10% in ten states. They planned similar reductions in nine additional states by July...