Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Work, Work, Work." Careerman Bob Murphy fell into the Foreign Service almost by accident. Born in Milwaukee on Oct. 28, 1894, he was the only son of an Irish-American steam fitter on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. He worked his way through school, held dozens of odd jobs, e.g., selling the Milwaukee Journal. By 1916 he had managed to get into Washington's George Washington University Law School. There, an old foot injury kept him out of World War I military service-so he applied for a civilian war job and wound up as a clerk...
...with the Vichy authorities to supply them with U.S. economic aid and U.S. "technical assistants," soon took charge of an expanding North African intelligence network. North Africa began Murphy's cloakand-dagger days. On the eve of the U.S.British landings in North Africa in the fall of 1942, Bob Murphy took on the name, identification papers and guise of Lieut. Colonel McGowan, U.S. Army. He flew secretly to London for talks with Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower, then to Washington to confer with President Roosevelt. A key Murphy recommendation to General Eisenhower: a top-level U.S. officer should be smuggled...
...midnight on Oct. 22, 1942, Clark's submarine spotted a flickering light on an Algerian coastal bluff. It was the signal to row ashore, that the way was clear. W'hen Clark and his team reached shore, Bob Murphy was on hand to greet them: "Welcome to North Africa." That day, in a red-roofed villa on the road to Algiers. Clark and Murphy ate bread, jam and sardines, plotted the North African invasion with French leaders brought by Murphy. Suddenly the telephone rang, followed by the cry: "The police will be here in a few minutes." Tipped...
...spring, it had seemed certain that the veteran starting staff of Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette. Gene Conley, Bob Rush and Bob Buhl would soon put Milwaukee out front. But while the Yankees ran off and out of reach of the rest of the American League by late May. the Braves bumbled along into August without showing championship form. After a fine start, Spahn ran into a temporary slump. Burdette could not manage to win consistently. Conley has yet to win a game. Rush did not finish a game in twelve straight starts. Buhl came up with a shoulder injury...
...Bob Trowbridge, a bullpen hopeful early in the season, worked long hours with Braves Pitching Coach Whit Wyatt, learned to put a sharper break on his slider. Fortnight ago 28-year-old Trowbridge pitched seven hitless innings against the Giants, is now a valued reliefer with...