Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the time came for a man to follow the successful De Lattre and the unsuccessful Salan in Indo-China, hard-boiled Marshal Alphonse Juin, France's No. 1 soldier, looked only to the next desk for the man; Navarre had become Juin's chief of staff. Of Juin's choice an official in Washington remarked: "In our opinion, Navarre is a man of courage, energy and imagination. He knows his business and has military and political guts of a high order . . . [He] is leading a new team which looks pretty good...
After a busy holiday eve lunching with Irish Premier Eamon de Valera, holding a full Cabinet meeting and clearing his desk, Sir Winston Churchill slipped away for a two-week vacation at the Riviera villa owned by Publisher Lord Beaverbrook. Puckishly traveling incognito as "Mr. Hyde," although 300 well-wishers gathered at London Airport to see him off and several hundred more met him at Cap d'Ail, Sir Winston was accompanied by his daughter Mary and her husband, Captain Christopher Soames, two secretaries and three Scotland Yard inspectors. "Cap d'Ail has received its mayor...
...staff and start over again, remaking the Mirror as Britain's first popular picture daily. Getting rid of the women, said one of Northcliffe's editors, "was a horrid experience-like drowning kittens. They begged to be allowed to stay. They left little presents on my desk, waylaid me tearfully in the corridors." But the change worked. By 1914, when Northcliffe took vigorous personal control of the London Times (TIME, May 19, 1952) and sold the Mirror to his brother, Lord Rothermere, circulation was more than...
...mysteriously disappeared. Oatis turned down the story, was surprised when the tipster hastily handed him a photo showing the room where Clementis had supposedly been held, then darted out of the office. Within seconds, six secret police agents entered the office, and one immediately made for the desk drawer where Oatis had dropped the picture. Triumphantly, he picked it up and shouted: "Espionage...
...Rutgers University lab, he gave up and began hunting other antibiotics. By 1943, he found the wonder drug, streptomycin. In 1949. he and his assistants produced neomycin (TIME, April 4, 1949). Actinomycin became a half-forgotten curiosity. Dr. Waksman kept only a sample somewhere in the litter on his desk...