Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office. According to the column and a half story accompanying the picture, Charles W. Plaisted, obviously a reader of TIME, was about to celebrate his 100th birthday. To satisfy our curiosity about Mr. Plaisted, who may be the oldest reader of TIME extant, we asked Jeff Wylie, chief of our Boston bureau, to see him on his farm at York Corner...
...palatial home, smoked opium and kept several concubines. In 1922, to the indignation of all his friends, he sent his harem packing, broke himself of the opium habit. He went to Europe, studied in Moscow at the Eastern Toilers' Institute. In 1931, he was made commander in chief of the Chinese Red army, while Mao became political commissar. Chinese peasant legends, gleefully fostered by Communists, attribute superhuman powers to Chu-he could fly, he could see 100 li (33 miles) in all directions; he could stir dustclouds or winds against an enemy...
...Chief Croupier Manuel López Iglesias, who had seen estancias lost on the turn of a baccarat card in the old days, took a philosophical view of his new clientele. "The casino has been really democratized," he said. "People with all kinds of income now come to the casino. They may lose a little, they may win a little. What is important is that it is fun for them...
...clergyman named Albert Hawley Lucas. He had been a Marine private during World War I, later assistant headmaster at Pennsylvania's Episcopal Academy. He dressed in tweeds, liked to smoke pipes, played goal on the faculty soccer team. The boys at St. Albans soon found themselves calling him "Chief...
When Albert Lucas first took over St. Albans, he told his Bishop that, God willing, he would like to stay for 20 years-but no longer. Last week the 20 years were about up, and the Chief announced that in June he would retire; he wanted to spend the next years of his life in a parish of his own. "The Episcopal Church has about 1,000 vacancies," says he, "I'm not much worried about getting a place...