Word: careers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Precious Asset. When Lodge first went to the U.N., the occasional lapses into aloofness that damaged his Senate career annoyed some of his fellow delegates. He was distant with his staffers, sometimes plunged ahead without advising them or seeking their advice. But Lodge has grown impressively during his five years at the U.N. Despite his early success, Cabot Lodge counts among the late bloomers, those who keep on growing at ages when many men's characters and opinions freeze into rigidity. Today, a mellowed, warmer, more tactful and more patient Cabot Lodge is a superlative operator...
...DEFENSE DEPARTMENT. The Defense Department civil servants who, more permanent in the Pentagon than either politically appointed Secretaries or rotated military career officers, pervert the decision-making machinery. Though he does not name Defense Comptroller Wilfred J. McNeil, Gavin bombs the fiscal officer in the Pentagon who often rejects projects without understanding of military needs...
...Military Career: Joined the French army under the mandate, educated at France's famed St. Cyr. Promoted by the Vichy French to command of the Lebanese battalion of the French Army of the Levant, he was named chief of independent Lebanon's new army in 1945, has built it into a compact, disciplined force under firm control...
While Manzù says that form-and not religion-is his chief interest, the church has been a major factor in his career. His interest in art was awakened in the church in his native city of Bergamo, Italy, across the Alps from
Died. Eddie Davis, 53, New York cab driver turned hack writer (his own joke), gagman for Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante. Bob Hope, co-author of brassy Broadway musicals (Ankles Aweigh, Follow the Girls); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Davis' career got up on two wheels when Eddie Cantor happened into his crouched-and-waiting cab in 1928. Davis worked some ten years for him, cracked: "Every year he raised my pay but no matter how much money he gave me I still wouldn't marry one of his daughters." Davis provided Jimmy Durante with...