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...news to the Senate. Grabbing a hold-for-release text of the veto message from the A.P. wire, he strode onto the floor and read it off (thereby breaking the 2 p.m. release time). Political radarscopes began blipping wildly. "I'm dancing a jig," cried Republican Senator Alexander Wiley, who bases his hopes for re-election in gas-consuming Wisconsin on his opposition to the bill. Then Wiley left the chamber literally to perform his jig for photographers...
...Author Levine reports that after the trial a newspaperman, rummaging through a wastepaper basket which held the discarded ballots, discovered that MacArthur had voted for acquittal. In a letter addressed to Senator Wiley of Wisconsin (who had requested confirmation of the story), and published in the Congressional Record (Feb. 19, 1947); MacArthur said: "... Your recollection of my part in [Mitchell's] trial is entirely correct. It was fully known to him and he never ceased to express his gratitude for my attitude...
...Neighborhood. In Salt Lake City, after years of running newspaper advertisements. Thomas J. and Frank Wiley finally persuaded a Denver foundling home to tell them the adopted name of their long-lost brother, looked in their local directory, found that brother Hugh Bernecker, a substitute schoolteacher, had lived within 40 miles of them for 15 years and had once taught at a school attended by Frank's children...
...Force General Benjamin Wiley Chidlaw, test pilot and engineer who directed development of the first U.S. jets, got another pioneer assignment: create the machines and the organization to defend the U.S. against air attack. Four years later, the nation has a Continental Air Defense Command that is on 24-hour duty from the arctic to New Mexico (TIME, Dec. 20). But it no longer has the benefit of its founder's experience. Last week, at the age of 54, General Chidlaw retired with...
Born. To Judy (A Star Is Born) Garland, 32, high strung singing and dancing star of stage and screen, and Michael Sidney Luft, 38, her business agent: their second child, first son (Judy also has a daughter by her second husband, Director Vincente Minnelli); in Hollywood. Name: Joseph Wiley. Weight...