Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation was worst in France. From Premier Henri Queuille down, few seemed to have been spared. Two hundred Paris cops were on sick leave. In the Rhone Valley, 100,000 people were flat on their backs. In Alengon, schools had to be closed for want of teachers and pupils. Chief Flu-Fighter Dr. Lucien Bernard, of the Ministry of Public Health, was struck down himself...
...stopped outside the Colombian Embassy on Lima's wide, tree-lined Avenida Arequipa. A bulky, broad-shouldered figure hurried up to the embassy door. It was past midnight, but the big man shouted: "Go tell the ambassador that the chief of the People's Party wants to see him." The ambassador appeared and admitted Peru's most famous political refugee to the asylum of his embassy. After three months in hiding, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 53-year-old boss of the outlawed People's Party (APRA), wanted diplomatic protection and a chance to flee...
Schmidt's chief weapon, his thunderous voice, has been dulled by a recent operation; but however weak the flesh, his spirit is still willing to take...
Norman Collins, BBC's television chief, thinks Muffin appeals to everyone, including grownups, because his "grandiose ideas always go wrong, and, in that sense, he is the epitome of a whole field of human experience." The London Observer's radio critic has written learnedly of Muffin's "fresh, inventive, convivial" antics. Anthony Smith, one of Muffin's fans, puts the matter more simply: "I am four years old," he wrote. "I love Muffin...
Died. General Yoshijiro Umezu, 66, onetime chief of the Japanese army's general staff (he signed the surrender), convicted as a war criminal and given a life sentence; of cancer; in Tokyo...