Word: confidantes
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Until recently, Indira confined her outside activities to good works and women's welfare. But since the death of his old friend Ran Ahmad Kidwai, Nehru has lacked a personal troubleshooter and confidant. Most candidates were too old, too ambitious, or too antagonistic to Krishna Menon. Nehru's...
Handsome, meticulous in dress and manner, tactful and discreet, boyish Peter Townsend in almost no time was proving himself indispensable as confidant and courtier. "If I had had a son," George VI once said, "I'd have liked a boy like Townsend." It was inevitable almost from the first...
Two-Day Binge. Highlight of its latest issue is Civil War Correspondent (Chicago Times) Sylvanus Cadwallader's hitherto unpublished account of a two-day binge of General Grant. During the siege of Vicksburg, Cadwallader encountered Grant staggering through the barroom of a Mississippi steamboat. Wrote Cadwallader: "I . . . enticed him...
But Adenauer was grim and weary. "I think it was the longest trip I ever made," he told a confidant, and he did not sound much like the Chancellor who had left six days before with an air of confident self-sufficiency and diplomatic strength. To reporters he talked almost...
Harold L Pearson, 52, became president of Air Transport Association, the organization of U.S. scheduled airlines. Kansas-born "Pete" Pearson spent 22 years in chain-store merchandising at J. C. Penney and Sears, Roebuck, then joined Montgomery Ward, where he was named Ward controller in 1934. Pearson went on to...