Word: diller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tennis season was at its peak, and there was plenty of work for the champ to do. There was also some relaxing to do, and Big Jake finally found time to read the last pages of a thriller-diller western called Magic of a Killer's Name. Dexer the Cowboy and his sawed-off sidekick. Long Tom, were blowing some varmints to kingdom come...
Once in the clear, Blanchard's beef-trust legs dance on eggshells. He has a 14-game average of 6.6 yards for every time he has carried the ball. He does Army's kicking, blocks and tackles with a killer-diller effectiveness that approaches perfection. Every pro team in the U.S. would jump to make room for Blanchard...
After granting these favors, General MacArthur set up a quota system which would please his public relations chief, Brigadier General LeGrande A. Diller, who has a theory that "there are far too many newspapermen over here...
MacArthur's Communiqués. Europe was not the only place where Army Public Relations had a public-relations problem. From the other great theater of Army operations, communiqués passed along by General MacArthur's loyal press chief, Colonel LeGrande A. Diller, had aroused deep doubts-in the New York Times's military expert, Hanson Baldwin, among others-about the General's accuracy in reporting the facts. A recent communiqué asserted that during the Leyte campaign the enemy had "sustained 82,554 casualties." On the basis of the document itself, that precise-sounding...
...Blame? General Marshall's press chief, Major General Alexander D. Surles, maintains fairly close liaison from Washington with Allen, Diller, all other public relations officers in the field. But theater PROs get their orders from theater commanders, each of whom is boss in his own bailiwick. Washington would no more think of releasing anything which General Eisenhower had put a block on, or of pulling down anything which General MacArthur had put a balloon to, than it would think of rewriting the Ten Commandments...