Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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(See Cover) The green phone - phone-green to match the office walls - rang imperiously. New York City, said the long-distance operator, was calling Mr. James Reston, and in a moment Mr. Reston, Washington correspond ent of the New York Times, was talking to Adlai Stevenson. The titular head of...
Back in England, Ellis toyed with the idea of entering the Anglican ministry, but lost his faith and then decided to become a physician, which he eventually did. He became absorbed in a cult, the Hinton circle. Its late founder, James Hinton, had been a blend of crackpot and sexpot...
Died. Lawrence Richey, 74, onetime journalist, tight-lipped secretary and longtime confidant to President Herbert Hoover, who as a special agent assigned to the U.S. Secret Service suggested that J. Edgar Hoover might make a good Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; while flying home to Washington after his...