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Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins hustled the design to a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The J.C.S. ran it through the wringer of the interservice Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, headed by able General John E. Hull. The W.S.E.G. approved. The Navy, wise to the ways of big guns, pitched in to help with the construction of the first shell and first gun. The first test (made without an atomic charge in the shell) was a shattering failure, but after subsequent tests were successful, Collins gave the order for large-scale production...
Many of you, after your first look at TIME's taxpayer-in-the-wringer cover (TIME, March 10), may have felt like the man at a Denver newsstand, who picked up his copy and exclaimed: "My God, I'm on the cover...
...only qualified dissent we heard was that of an Internal Revenue Bureau official in Washington. "Your cover picture showed the taxpayer going into the wringer feet first," he complained. "We always put them in head first...
...Edgar Eisenhower, a Tacoma lawyer. Said Edgar last week: "I'm sincerely opposed to Dwight's running. I question whether Christ himself could do the job that has to be done. People are looking for miracles, and I'd hate to see Dwight get in a wringer. He could swing his arms and thrash the water, but if Congress wasn't with him, then he'd be sunk ... I don't want him crucified. I'm sorry the country feels that there's only one man among all the citizenry...
...career throve pleasantly enough, although he got a stiff reprimand in 1938 for "working along the lines of 'Kulturbolschewist' Kurt Weill." He had a brief wartime success with a ballet, Joan of Zarissa, which was produced in occupied Paris. After the war, Egk went through the denazification wringer and was finally cleared...