Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open record, Duggan's career in the State Department was that of a hardworking, conscientious public servant. He had been Under Secretary Welles's lieutenant in plugging for the Good Neighbor policy in Latin America...
Lily-White Lynn. Young Patrick learned to skate in British Columbia. But from the time he was five years old his mother was dead set against his choosing hockey as a career. Says Lynn: "Mother didn't want to see her lily-white boy mixed up with those rough characters."† Instead, he was sent to the University of British Columbia to study dentistry. When he flunked out a year later, his father reluctantly agreed to let him play hockey: "I think he thought I'd be lousy and get it out of my system." Lynn practiced eight...
That was about the last time the San Francisco press erred on the conservative side. In its rowdy, street-brawling career it has spawned some rich newspaper legends and some tough and capable newspapermen. One of the best of them, City Editor John Bruce of the Chronicle, has marshaled the legends and the men in Gaudy Century (Random House; $3.75), a new book as bouncy and nostalgic as a ride in a stagecoach...
Lewis, the son of a Methodist minister who had been born a slave, came to the Harvard Law School in 1893 after a highly successful career as an athlete, scholar, and debater at Amherst. Under the eligibility rules of that time he was able to continue playing football at Harvard while a law student...
Statue. The climax of Thomas' career came at Chickamauga, on Sept. 20, 1863, when his corps of perhaps 20,000 men held up the entire Confederate Army under Bragg (over 50,000), after Thomas' superior, Rosecrans, had retreated to Chattanooga. Contemporaries paid so much attention to the blunders of both Rosecrans and Bragg that Thomas' achievement seemed less impressive to them than it seems now, and the fact that Chickamauga was a Confederate victory obscured the brilliance of his own handling of his troops. Both biographers tell the story of the battle in great detail, and both...