Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strict seniority in passing out posts. To the lowly District of Columbia Committee went two capable newcomers, Kentucky's Thruston Morton (who also got Post Office) and New York's Jack Javits (who also got Rules). Faring only slightly better, Kentucky's other Republican, former Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, was awarded Labor and Rules. Yet to Indiana's Neanderthal Republican Bill Jenner, a second-termer, went the most coveted G.O.P. vacancy: a seat on the powerful, tax-patrolling Finance Committee...
...farewell banquet was accorded Financier John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the Court of St. James's, at the Long Island estate of his sister, Joan Whitney Payson, co-owner with Whitney of the famed Greentree Stable. Next day, in a Manhattan hospital recovering from gastric ulcer surgery, the diplomat-to-be's wife, Betsey Gushing Whitney, heard a special tape recording of the tributes paid her husband at the dinner. Among the notable banquet guests: CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley and high-styled Barbara Gushing Paley, Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard...
...Georgia's retired Democratic Senator Walter George as his special assistant (with the rank of ambassador) to be a presidential emissary to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and adviser on "development and implementation of bipartisan foreign policy." Salary: $20,000 a year...
...Albany, where the church threatened to boycott future films at the theater scheduled to play Baby Doll, the management pleaded with Warner Bros, to be let out of its contract to play the movie. In Boston, a spokesman for Catholic Layman Joseph P. Kennedy, ex-U.S. Ambassador to Britain and father of Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, announced that he would keep the picture out of his chain of 23 theaters in Maine and New Hampshire. (In Washington a Joint Services Commission discreetly omitted the picture from the list approved for showing in theaters of the armed forces; G.I.s...
...Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen." Recent Godkin lecturers have included Adlai E. Stevenson, John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Ralph Flanders of Vermont; Harold E. Stassen, and last year, Chester W. Bowles, former U.S. Ambassador to India...