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...week's end, on his way to Newport, the usually genial Joe Frazer was not especially happy. He did not mind being the only dollar-a-year executive in the motor industry; his week-old position gives him other compensation of the incentive type...
Until last week the praying divinity student, Gilbert Dodds, looked like a good miler. Last week he looked like a great one. In the Chicago Relays he pounded out a blistering 4:06.4, smashing his own week-old world indoor record (TIME, March 20). This led to predictions of even faster times this summer. Outdoors, Dodds may yet approach Arne Andersson's world mark...
Over Rangoon a protective covey of American-flown Tomahawks (P-40s) and British Hurricanes beat off incessant waves of day & night bombing attacks. Paced by John Van Kuren ("Scarsdale Jack") Newkirk (25 Jap planes shot down), who cut short a week-old honeymoon last July to join the American Volunteer Group, the outnumbered U.S., British, Australian, Canadian and Indian pilots in Burma chalked up 122 enemy planes against only five losses for themselves...
...represents the extreme "Socialist" element of National Socialism and who talks all the time, was only continuing his week-old speaking tour to explain the Nazis' "social revolution" to German industrial workers. Same week Field Marshal Hermann Goring, on the other hand, who is more nationalist than socialist and who for a Nazi speaks very little, made his first public speech since last September. And he acted as if he still had faith in the profit system...
When John Boettiger took over the Post-Intelligencer it had just ended a 15-week-old strike, had been losing money even before that. (West Coast newsmen have guessed that it cost Hearst $2,000,000.) For the last few months, it has reputedly made a little money. While its total advertising lineage (6,800,000) in eleven months of 1939 was approximately the same as in 1937, in retail advertising it had gained 520,000 lines, a clear indication that local businessmen have confidence in John Boettiger and his paper...