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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 16 years spent learning his trade in routine jobs, Diplomat Murphy's breakthrough came in 1936. with the arrival in Paris of Ambassador William Bullitt, a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt's and a man with a sharp eye for young talent. "When I got to Paris." recalls Bullitt, "Murphy was No. 3 consul. He seemed so much abler than the No. 2 consul and the No. 1 consul that I had him made consul general.'' By 1939 Murphy was a full-blown counselor at the Paris embassy. "This," says Bullitt, "was going up very...
...frulla Khan, a judge of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, and Buddhist U Chan Htoon, Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma, contributed speeches of great good will. But it was Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of Pittsburgh's Rodef Shalom Temple (Reform) who came close to denning much that is wrong with religious liberalism. Said he: There is a "sort of spiritual restlessness, a hunger" in the hearts of modern men, and it is expressed, among other things, by the bestsellers. The type of religion found in popular books about religion, said Rabbi
...Milwaukee starter this June, 23-year-old Jay won seven, including three shutouts, and lost four. Last week, with relief help from Spahn, he shut out Cincinnati with one hit, 3-0. He has the second best earned-run average (ERA) in the league-1.81; his losses, all close (io, 2-1, 3-1, 4-2), have been mainly due to lack of effective hitting support...
...lives. It invests only 2½% of product sales in advertising, well below many of its competitors. But last week greying, handsome President Justin Whitlock Dart, 51, announced that the firm's first-half sales were up 8%, net profit 26%. This year's volume should come close to $180 million and earnings should pass $5,000,000, the best in Rexall's 38-year history...
...rubber band, fixes her rival with a saccharine smile that fairly oozes gore. Actor Harrison, whether falling asleep on his feet during the national anthem or grunting amorously to a sofa pillow, still reigns as king of his wacky parlor empire, but an enormously talented queen has moved in close to his side...