Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from a bottle in public, shocked fellow guests at a presidential party by taking a hefty slug when the others were raising their glasses in a toast. He addressed a public meeting with a cigarette dangling from his nether lip. Not to be outdone by U.S. Ambassador H. Merle Cochran, who had a shiny blue 1950 Packard, Uncle Barhen acquired a shiny red 19 50 Packard...
...White House rose garden, President Truman presented the Harmon international aviation trophy, topnotch aviation award, to the outstanding aviator, aviatrix and aeronaut of the past decade: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, wartime boss of the Eighth Air Force, leader of the first Tokyo raid; Jacqueline Cochran, wartime head of WASP, and dirigible expert Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl (retired), wartime chief of Naval Airship Training...
...University of Southern California's Owen Cochran Coy, 66, hulking (6 ft. 5 in., 200 lbs.), indefatigable chronicler of early California history (The Great Trek, Gold Days). Lumbering about his classroom or sitting in his cluttered study. Professor Coy taught and talked history with the air of a reminiscent prospector. Over the years he traveled thousands of miles along pioneer trails, tabulated the names of more than 57,000 old California settlements, came to know as much about Grizzly Gulch, Whiskey Slide, Swellhead Diggings, Loafers' Flat and Lousy Level as any man alive...
...receiving the new envoys to Indonesia. The first to present his credentials was Economic Expert Dr. Hans M. Hirschfeld, the Dutch Government's choice as the first Netherlands High Commissioner to the United States of Indonesia. The second was the U.S.'s bulky, soft-spoken H. Merle Cochran. For 18 months, Cochran had been the moving force on the United Nations Commission for Indonesia, had skillfully steered the Dutch and Indonesian negotiators through a tangled jungle of mutual distrust and suspicion. Said Cochran: "I have the utmost confidence...