Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the questions are of a personal nature, while others merely compile the formal statistics of the class. Included in the poll are questions concerning the student's career in the service or in other war occupations...
...take his measure is young (24), New Jersey-born, Columbia-trained Rudolph von Abele. The result is not notably successful as a portrait (Stephens has chestnut hair on one page, black hair on another), but it is a generally scholarly study, based on primary sources, of an extraordinary political career. Not the least extraordinary fact in Stephens' life is that, having accepted the post of Confederate Vice President, he gave only lukewarm support to the Government. When his own ideas of states' rights and constitutional liberty were infringed by the Confederate Congress, he sulked in Georgia, refused even...
...tongued Admiral William F. Halsey, who snorted: "It's nobody's damn business where we go. We will go anywhere we please." Of course blustering "Bull" Halsey, whose diplomatic age is about seven and a half, was a bad boy to say it. But many an inhibited career diplomat and citizen were glad that...
...facts were few, but exotic. At Fountainebleau, Ho appeared as a saintly-looking little man who liked to present roses to lady reporters. He had started his underground political career 35 years ago at 19, when his radical father was imprisoned by an unsympathetic Viet Nam emperor. He ran off to sea, went to France at the end of World War I and under the alias of Nguyen-Ai-Quoc ( One Who Loves His Country"), became a Socialist, and later a Communist. Then he went to Moscow, where, under the alias of Song Man-tcho ("Mr. Song of Boundless Generosity...
...turns out, the Swede (screen newcomer Burt Lancaster) was a natural born fall guy. By the time such seasoned misbehaviorists as Albert Dekker and Ava Gardner are through with him, the double-and triple-crossings get so thick that his death seems about the only simple thing in his career...