Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another shuffle of its South American representatives, the State Department switched 49-year-old William Douglas Pawley from Peru to Brazil, to fill the spot recently vacated by Adolf Berle Jr. Swashbuckling Bill Pawley* began a fabulous, up-&-down career at 18 by selling diving suits to Venezuela pearl divers, more recently helped organize the famous Flying Tigers. He once modestly remarked: "Unquestionably I have been one of the prime contributors to China's defense." As Ambassador to Peru he earned the respect and awe of the Bustamante Government. He, too, was the personal choice of Spruille Braden...
Svirsky's journalistic aspirations received their first jolt when he "failed badly" as a heeler for the Yale Daily News. With a successful newspaper career behind him in spite of that rejection, he now recalls that the News was chiefly a haven for big men on the Eli campus. "Journalism didn't count for much with them...
...board of directors (and certain of election this month) were Donald M. Nelson, onetime Sears executive vice president, and Clement D. Ryan, onetime Ward president. Both men had fallen out with the giants. Don Nelson, now president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, after a headlined career as boss of the old War Production Board, and "Rox" Ryan now president of the Whitney Department Store, Spiegel subsidiary in San Diego, Calif., were expected to inject big-time know-how into Spiegel policies...
...physical objects." By the time he was 13, sharp-witted Franz had logically argued his sisters into incurable neuroses, and ruled the household with an "intellectual regime of terror [that] would have been impossible in any other atmosphere than that of the German intellectual middle class." After his university career-which included lectures on subjects such as "The use of the comma by Lessing"-Franz had progressed so far into the abstract that the philosophy of Immanuel Kant appeared to him to be "escape literature." Suicide was the only logical next step. With the aid of a world-weary student...
...Funny Nazis. Much of Editor Schoenberner's book reads like the life story of a character invented by Ludwig Bemelmans. But its humor and gaiety paradoxically give place to sadness when Schoenberner describes his career with Germany's most humorous weekly. Simplicissimus had once numbered Thomas Mann among its staff and George Grosz among its cartoonists; it had published the maiden work of Heinrich Mann and Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as stories by De Maupassant, Chekhov, Strindberg and Hamsun. Under the Kaiser, its Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress...