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...Republican for Truman. To fill ailing Lew Douglas' shoes, Harry Truman last week picked an envoy of another sort. Quiet, retiring, 65-year-old Walter Sherman Gifford, a Yankee Republican, began his career as a $10-a-week clerk in Western Electric, by a knack for figures and a passion for efficiency, rose to the eminence of chairman of the board of American Telephone & Telegraph, from which he retired last December. His appointment underlined two facts: in some quarters, diplomacy is less politics than big business; Mr. Truman once again had rejected a political appointment for one that would...
...veto of the McCarran anti-Communist bill. In the House, when the page boys burst in with mimeographed copies of the message, members grabbed eagerly at the bundles, helped pass them out. With little more than a glance, they began shouting: "Vote! Vote!" And minutes after the clerk had intoned Harry Truman's 5,500 words of warning, they had overridden the veto without a word of debate, by a thumping...
...troubled little woman who went to the out-patient clinic of Manhattan's famed Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases in May 1949 was neatly but cheaply dressed. She described herself to the admission clerk as Margaret Williams Pierce, unmarried. Age: 62. Occupation: telephone operator-receptionist. Salary: $160 a month...
Endlessly she nags her son, a dreamer trapped in a shipping clerk's job, to bring "a gentleman caller" to the house. At length he brings a warehouse co-worker (Kirk Douglas), an ambitious self-improver, glib, personable and halfsincere. Putting the best face on an uneasy situation, Douglas enchants the girl with compliments, a dance, a kiss. Then he dashes her by owning up to a fiancée and making an awkward exit...
Died. The Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh, 61, since 1938 Stated Clerk of the Northern Presbyterians' General Assembly; in a truck-automobile collision; near Thermopolis, Wyo. For his wartime services as chairman of the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains, Dr. Pugh was awarded the U.S. Medal for Merit...