Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liable to find that you've got a job." The point Wilson was trying to make was that he, like the rest of the Cabinet, has had great difficulty in keeping able assistants from ditching Government service for private business. But Engine Charlie's little joke drew reporters' attention to another point. Now in his 37th month as Secretary of Defense, Wilson, despite his early bobbles, has outlasted all of his top civilian assistants but one (Truman-appointed Budget Expert Wilfred J. McNeil), has held office twice as long as any of his predecessors...
...Cambridge, as in most other cities, this program has taken the form of Urban Renewal. Last year a committee, headed by local merchant Paul Corcoran, drew up a "Workable Program for Urban Renewal", which described the existing situation, outlined the direction in which the city was moving, and suggested a possible alternative...
...team, which capitalized on a sport then barely ten years old in intercollegiate competition, drew crowds of over 1800 to the new Indoor Athletic Building for a single match. Then, suddenly, boxing as an intercollegiate sport at Harvard was gone...
...unlike their elders, have no personal experience of Spain's harsh 1936-39 civil war (TIME, Jan. 16). More than 3,000 students signed a petition asking for free election of delegates to a student congress. Because such a student congress would rival the S.E.U., the proposal drew Falange fire; but University Rector Dr. Pedro Laín Entralgo thought it wise to allow the students to blow off steam, agreed to free elections, class by class, in the downtown law school. Last fortnight first-year law students, voting for 20 congress delegates, elected only one man from...
...took a beating of another sort on the Kraft Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC), when Lee Tracy drew a sharply defined portrait of a tough, successful TV star in David Karp's Good Old Charley Faye. The principal characterization was well done in the writing as well as in the acting, and there were some nice, nostalgic throwbacks to the vaudeville of the '20s as old jokes were recalled during a soft-shoe routine ("You take a shower this morning?" "Why? Is one missing?" And: "Care to join me in a cup of coffee?" "Is there room...