Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gazed slowly over the faces before him. Reino Hayhanen, testifying as a Government witness, told the court that he had come to the U.S. five years ago as a Soviet spy. His boss? Hayhanen pointed a pudgy finger at the expressionless, bird-faced man on trial for his life: Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, 55, a painter of modest talents, who was picked up by the FBI last summer, accused of being Russia's No. 1 spy in the U.S. (TIME...
Died. William Clark, 66, tall, wealthy (Clark thread fortune heir), cantankerous former judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who left the bench to serve as a lieutenant colonel in World War II, returned to find his seat filled, sued claiming the G.I. Bill guaranteed him his job (he lost); of a heart attack; in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon. Harvardman ('11) Clark first gained fame in 1930 by ruling that the 18th (prohibition) Amendment was invalid, a decision unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court...
...when Freud could have made big money easily. In 1920 he had an offer of $1,000 each for articles in Cosmopolitan, huffily turned it down because the editors told him what they wanted him to write about: "The Wife's Mental Place in the Home." In 1924 Colonel "Bertie" McCormick cabled Tribune Staffman George Seldes...
...that U.S. paratroopers landed, ex-Infantry Officer (Lieut. Colonel) Harry Ashmore sadly welcomed the invasion of Little Rock as the shock that might prompt Arkansas to "regain perspective, restore peace, sustain the law." The Gazette seemed even to prompt the enthusiastically pro-Faubus evening Democrat to aim a couple of mildly censorious editorials against the governor, but anti-Ashmore mutterings grew to shouts, and some businessmen started cornering the Gazette's Publisher Hugh Patterson to rail against his editor. Cracked Ashmore: "I'm lucky in having a publisher who does not consider what he hears at the countryclub...
...South: "The Ashmore gravestones in Greenville show before the Revolution. I had two Confederate grandfathers, which, I believe, is all you can have. My grandfather Ashmore is the only Confederate private I've ever heard of, though I'm sure he was called a colonel in later life...