Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Activity at GHQ. There was no sign from Tokyo this week that he intended to return to the U.S. soon to go into active campaigning. But there was no doubt that 68-year-old Douglas MacArthur wanted to crown his career with the U.S. presidency. His headquarters buzzed with a new activity. Cables of congratulations, support and advice began to pile up on his desk. As he always had in his military campaigns, the general was gathering intelligence reports. As he had in his war moves, MacArthur would reveal his political decision in his own good time...
Yoshiko Kawashima said she was born a Manchu princess; she grew up to become a Japanese spy. In her career as the "Mata Hari of China," she posed variously as a Chinese soldier, a taxi driver, a Korean prostitute (Chinese officers always asked for Koreans, she explained), a schoolteacher...
Slim, blonde Conchita Cintron, 25, girl bullfighter, paused at LaGuardia Airport on her way from Lisbon to ring engagements in Peru. Born of U.S. parents in Chile, 121-lb. Conchita, who claims 828 bulls in her eight-year career, told reporters that she would not get married just yet because she "still enjoys' fighting too much...
...longtime college president (Knox College, 1918-25, Wesleyan University, 1925-43); of coronary thrombosis; in Hartford. A liberal educator who became Lieutenant Governor in 1939, lean, austere-looking "Big Jim" once wrote: "With all the temptations, dangers and degradations that beset it, politics is still, I think, the noblest career that a man can choose...
...Stalinism? Macdonald concludes that "a large power-mass like the Soviet Union exercises a tremendous gravitational pull on an erratic comet like Henry Wallace. ... It is not true that Henry Wallace is an agent of Moscow. But it is true that he behaves like one. . . . Wallace has made a career by supplying to the liberals a commodity they crave: rhetoric which accomplishes in fantasy what cannot be accomplished in reality...