Word: careers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Academically, Jimmy Thach ('27) was a less than middling middy, but his first plane ride, in a yellow twin-engined H16 seaplane, sent him soaring into a pilot's career. In 1930 he became a member of the U.S. Navy's famous Fighting Squadron 1, the High Hat Squadron (skipper of the High Hats: Lieut. Commander Arthur W. Radford). Nine of the High Hats, including Thach and Radford, barnstormed the nation in Curtiss F8C4 Hell-divers, tied wingtip to wingtip with Manila rope. Bound thus, Thach and some of his comrades astonished crowds with loops, snap rolls...
...mark of Bob Murphy's professionalism that he left with Salam singing his praises. Such was Murphy's total performance that another U.S. career diplomat in the Middle East was moved to remark: "Bob proves the ultimate value of professionalism in diplomacy-proves the case for a Foreign Service career. We can't do without men like...
...Career Ambassador rank, equivalent to Navy Fleet Admiral, General of the Army or Air Force, was signed into law in August 1955. The five-star ambassadors: Robert D. Murphy; Loy Wesley Henderson, 66, Deputy Under Secretary of State (Administration), since retired from the Foreign Service but serving on by presidential appointment; H. Freeman ("Doc") Matthews, 59, onetime Deputy Under Secretary of State (1950-53), now Ambassador to Austria; James Clement Dunn, 67, onetime Ambassador to Italy, France, Brazil, since retired...
...sooner or later, Otto's monologues always turned to the greatest coup of his career-the days of his kingship. Early in 1913, in the confusing days of the Balkan wars, he was traveling through the Balkans with a small circus, doubling as sword swallower and magician. Albania had just proclaimed its independence of the Ottoman Empire. While the great powers sought a European princeling to head the new state, some Albanian Moslems had their heart set on Prince Halim Eddine, a kinsman of the Turkish Sultan...
...blood-happy townsmen giving chase and a soul-weary sheriff-played to sunken-eyed, raspy-throated perfection by Theodore Bikel. If Sidney Poitier's wild-eyed, bare-fanged portrayal of Cullen is overwrought, it has at least prodded Teen-Agitator Curtis into the first performance of his career that will incline the old folks to a modest whoop...