Word: anna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were taken in Philadelphia where he was born in 1895 ("north of Market Street, on the wrong side of the railroad tracks," McCloy explains). His father, who came of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, worked for an insurance company. When Jack was six his father died, leaving no insurance. Mother Anna May Snader McCloy, of Pennsylvania Dutch (i.e., German) background, learned nursing, told Jack his father had hoped he would be a lawyer, skimped & saved to send him to Maplewood, a Quaker boarding school, then to Peddie, Amherst College and finally Harvard Law School...
...Amherst, Anna McCloy's boy studied hard (a cum laude graduate), earned part of his way by waiting on tables for meals, tutoring during vacation, won a letter in tennis. The war in Europe invaded the Amherst campus in 1916. Jack McCloy plumped for "preparedness" as against "pacifism." He spent the summer after graduation training at Plattsburg. The U.S. was in the war as he finished his first year at Harvard Law. He hurried to Plattsburg again...
...indefatigable. He rises to fish at 4 a.m., drags his family on walks up Iron Mountain. "After a hike with him," says chestnut-haired Ellen McCloy, "we all come home on our hands and knees." The McCloy family circle, in the yellow brick Georgetown house, includes Grandmother Anna McCloy, now 83, young John, 11, Ellen, 7, a droopy-eared beagle named Judy and an affectionate boxer named Punch...
...Manhattan office one day last February, Otis Lee Wiese, 44-year-old editor and publisher of McCall's, got a telephone call from Hyde Park. The caller, whom Wiese has never identified, cried: "Come quick! The lady's feelings are hurt." Wiese quickly decoded "lady" into Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and took the next train north, convinced that somehow the rival Ladies' Home Journal had underestimated the power of a woman...
...Four picked a pink palace for the momentous Foreign Ministers Conference which convenes in Paris next week. Known as the Palais Rose, it belongs to the Duchess de Talleyrand-Périgord, formerly Countess de Castellane, formerly Anna Gould. Furniture movers, electricians and telephone men were hard at work to get everything ready. No less hard at work were the Foreign Ministers' advance guard-U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup, Britain's Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, France's Alexandre Parodi-in an attempt to "harmonize" their nations' views on what ought to be the West...