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Consequently, four days before the convention opened the race seemed wide-open, and the one-day booms blossomed in methodical order: for Barkley, Douglas, Byrnes and Speaker Sam Ray burn. The Byrnes boom got farthest first and then fell flattest. The first of many intimate and important dinners in Chicago ended Byrnes's candidacy...
Port of Necessity. There was no doubt that, once Cherbourg was taken, U.S. and British engineers could have the port usable again in a few days. Within the shelter of the five-mile-long roadstead, even lightering in supplies would be far easier and faster than in the wide-open Bay of the Seine, or in the tiny fishing-village ports opened by Royal Marines...
Cheyenne's dilapidated, frame-built West End district* was a wide-open haven for girls, gambling and guzzling until last summer, when Army authorities from nearby Fort Francis E. Warren cracked down. Sin spots went under cover, which meant they had to begin buying protection. Soldiers (mostly Negroes) from Fort Warren still had a million-a-month payroll to blow. In sleazy backroom dives, blackjack stakes ran as high as $200 a game. Nightspots bootlegged whiskey because they could not get liquor franchises, limited in Cheyenne to 20 a year and unofficially valued at $50,000 each. Negro service...
...still fumbling toward a postwar air policy.* A determined 17 of the 19 U.S. airlines are certain that the keystone of that U.S. policy should be wide-open competition on foreign routes. Quietly but persistently, Pan American's famed president, Juan Terry Trippe, has opposed this stand, urging instead the "chosen instrument" policy (TIME, Nov. 8). This week, pinko Author Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons, The Politicos) entered the controversy with a new book, Empire of the Air (Harcourt, Brace; $3). In trying to decide between the two views, Author Josephson has adopted a historical method: to determine whether...
...last week Allied flyers reported that all Jap ships had left, that Jap planes were no longer in the area in any strength. Although the stranded Jap garrison would no doubt resist to the bloody end, Rabaul lay wide-open to an amphibious invasion...