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...Derogatory Leaks." Hurley was further incensed when he found that other career men opposed to Chiang were also placed in key department posts. Among them were portly George Atcheson Jr.,* now political adviser to General MacArthur in Tokyo, and China-born John Stewart Service, who was welcomed back to the Department after he was cleared of FBI charges that he had divulged State Department secrets (TIME, Sept. 3). Service is now Atcheson's assistant in Tokyo...
...toward the occupation happened to run side by side; the Japanese Government wanted the people to roll with the punches, MacArthur was not set for a haymaker. Each wanted to spar around, learn more about the other. As political adviser to MacArthur. Washington named plump, 48-year-old George Atcheson Jr., career diplomat and counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Chungking during much of the war. Able, experienced in Far Eastern affairs, Atcheson was a flexible man who could not be branded with any political label...
...delegates proceeded to trade each other all sorts of useless knowledge. From Harold W. Bentley, managing editor of American Speech, they got a report on names of U. S. towns and cities. Samples: Social Circle, Wide Mouth, Jingo, Sleepy Eye, Matrimony, Hot Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...
...Platak, agile Chicago post-office clerk: the handball championship of the U. S., for the third year in a row; 21-13, 21-6 in the final against Past Champion Sam Atcheson of Memphis, Tenn.; in Chicago...
Next day Hobelmann's adversary was a player with a game more like his own-curly-haired Samuel Atcheson, paper salesman of Memphis, Tenn. Atcheson had a run of 14 points at the start of the match before Hobelmann got one; Hobelmann got 11 while his adversary ran out the game. The next game-Hobelmann depending largely on his reach, Atcheson playing low shots into the corners-was close till the points were at 6-all. Then Atcheson got another run, 15 points this time, to end the match and tournament without losing a game-a feat which...