Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eloquence for Hire. Currently, Washington's most conspicuous ghost is President Truman's Clark Clifford (Economic Adviser Elliott Bell performs the same function for the Republicans' Governor Tom Dewey). Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington is supplied with speeches by young, cocky Steve Leo, onetime Maine newsman; Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan by ex-TIME Reporter Wesley McCune. General Omar Bradley's famed, soldierly prose is the product of Lieut. Colonel Chet Hansen, an ex-newspaperman who planned to leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host...
Measure for Measure. In Springfield, Ohio, Truck Driver Clifford Ellis, charged with drunken driving and knocking down a pedestrian, was fined $150 and sentenced to "spend as much time in jail as the victim spends in the hospital...
...from her native Akron to Smith College, and then straight to Broadway. She joined the Theatre Guild as a part-time secretary, worked her way up through odd jobs to casting director, quit in 1931 to become a founder and director of the fiery young Group Theatre, which launched Clifford Odets, Sidney Kingsley, William Saroyan, Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, John Garfield...
...Born. To Clifford Stanton Heinz II, 30, an heir to the Pittsburgh food-packing fortune founded by his grandfather, the late H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz, and Second Wife Virginia Howard Heinz, thirtyish: their second child, first daughter (he has a son by his first marriage); in Los Angeles. Name: Sharon Louise. Weight...
Point Four & Plan. The combine was first organized 2½ years ago at the suggestion of the U.S. Government to conduct a survey of Japan. Named as president was Clifford S. Strike, 46, president of Manhattan's F. H. McGraw & Co., which built, among other World War II projects, the $36 million Bermuda air base. Last week in a green-carpeted office on Manhattan's East 42nd Street, O.C.I. President Strike and Board Chairman