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Although the Washington press corps had no advance dope on the White House's well-kept secret, their editors nevertheless made good use of the hour between the White House "alert" and the actual announcement. Thanks to the odd time, they had a big story that radio couldn't milk dry before their papers hit the streets. They went after it with oldtime frenzy. Slot men, guessing what the news would be, dug out morgue cuts of MacArthur, dummied up screamer heads on alternate possibilities (MACARTHUR FIRED; MACARTHUR REBUKED; MACARTHUR QUITS). Most morning newspapers stopped their presses, replated...
Earnest John G. Gill looked like just the man to take care of the Unitarian Church in the quiet, well-kept town of Alton, 111. (pop. 32,000), on the bluffs of the Mississippi River. At Harvard, John Gill had written his Ph.D. thesis on Elijah Parish Lovejoy, the fiery Abolitionist minister and editor who was beaten to death by an Alton...
Whitsuntide came & went, and the U.S. and its Allies this week were still in Berlin. The huge Communist youth demonstration went off in a driving rain, a sodden flop. After the captains and the kids departed, Berlin's otherwise neat and well-kept ruins were littered with a mass of Communist leaflets; otherwise nothing much had changed. There could be no doubt that the Reds had trapped themselves into a severe propaganda defeat...
Broadway's Billy Rose stepped off the plane at Honolulu, cracked from beneath a yoke of traditional leis: "I feel like a well-kept grave...
...well-kept secret. For several months, Pan American Airways' canny President Juan Terry Trippe had been dickering with American Airlines' Chairman C. R. Smith. But not till last week did any hint of the dickering leak out. This week, as Wall Street began to buzz with rumors, Juan Trippe sprang the news. American had agreed to sell Pan Am its transatlantic subsidiary, American Overseas Airlines...