Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Shah had set off for a ceremonial visit to Manhattan and a month's visit around the U.S., Harry Truman settled down to routine. A little fat from his long desk-bound summer, he had been roped into a reducing contest with Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, and his portly military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. The President still had three pounds to lose by Thanksgiving Day (to 175). Then, after accounts were settled (at $10 for every overweight pound), he would head for three weeks at Key West and his first real vacation...
Last week, T.U.C. leaders faced their government's key men in Sir Stafford Cripps's study in the House of Commons. Beside Cripps at his maroon-topped desk sat Ernest Bevin and Aneurin Bevan, both good union men. Ernie Bevin assumed the role in which he feels most at home: that of the table-thumping, tough-spoken bargainer. This time he was arguing for the employer's side, i.e., the government. When the T.U.C. leaders reiterated their demands, Bevin rumbled that it was up to the workers, through toil and discipline, to support their government...
...newsman--William German, head of the San Francisco Chronicle's copy desk--put it this way: "We're tremendously impressed with Harvard's vitality and stimulation. There's so much worth doing here that I wish I could spend a full four years...
...T.W.A. agent was waiting when the Connie landed at Pittsburgh. Somehow, there were 42 tickets and 43 passengers on the plane, he said. When they came to Artie, he told them that he had left his ticket on the reservation desk at the Waldorf back in New York. T.W.A. could pick it up there...
...eleven months of intense prep aration (TIME, Oct. 17), Army did just that to Michigan. Says Blaik: "It's like plotting a military campaign. I get a tremendous kick out of it." Like Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, the master coach, Blaik can be found at his desk as early as 8 a.m. and as late as mid night. Oklahoma's shrewd, hard-working Coach Bud Wilkinson, 34, begins his day at 7:30. He, too, exploits the organization of manpower, but with variations on the theme. For old time's sake, he uses versa tile...