Word: cloying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your very excellent article on John J. Mc-Cloy and ... his desire to spare the historic city of Rothenburg, Germany [TIME, June 20] brings to light a historical coincidence not generally known...
...THAT GOT Mc CLOY - Helen AWAY-Helen William Morrow ($2). The aggressively erudite author of Panic has boned up this time on the ancient Picts, the psychology of juvenile delinquency and Poe's Purloined Letter. She turns it all into a pretty exciting chase across the Scottish moors. When it's all over, the critical reader may feel as trapped as the villain by the plot's hard-to-believe major premise. Verdict: very good...
...former small Washington staff now has 29 officers. Some are reserves, some are regulars, like Lieut. Colonel Stanley Grogan, who used to be a newspaperman. It also has more than 100 in the field. Last week newsmen learned that General Richardson will be responsible to John J. Mc-Cloy, bald, bulky Manhattan lawyer and new Assistant Secretary...