Word: courtney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale picked for next year is the Rev. John Courtney Murray, 46, a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), cucumber-cool intellectual who teaches theology at Woodstock (Md.) College, but is famed far beyond. Father Murray is a towering figure among U.S. Catholic scholars. A polite and learned defender of the faith, he edits the erudite quarterly, Theological Studies (he will continue to do so at Yale), and is the spearhead of a bold attempt to reconcile traditional Catholic church-state doctrine with U.S. practice...
...When the New York Times interpreted these remarks as a charge that the present cease-fire talks constitute appeasement, MacArthur's aide, Major General Courtney Whitney, shot out a fast correction from the Waldorf-Astoria. Said he: MacArthur had made it clear, even when urging an expanded attack on the Chinese, that "we should first give the enemy the. opportunity to sit down at a conference table in an honest effort to avoid further bloodshed . . ." The genera! "has consistently refrained" from even discussing the cease-fire negotiations, said Whitney...
...background the general's aide, Major General Courtney Whitney, was saying that this was one of many visits General MacArthur will make in the near future. "He's been invited to visit almost every state of the Union...
...highest percentage of retired generals in the U.S., treated him to old memories (he had lived there as a boy, and attended Texas Military Academy). General Jonathan Wainwright was on hand, in bemedaled uniform ("How are you, Skinny, you old rascal?"), so was Lieut. General Walter Krueger, General Courtney Hodges...
...Manhattan newsmen-covering General Douglas MacArthur at the Waldorf-Astoria have had a dull time. They have seen little of MacArthur himself, gotten no interviews, spoken only with his spokesman, Major General Courtney Whitney...