Word: dunne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave us a chance to use in formation on narcotics we'd long been storing up," said Johnson. Once, while he was standing at the top of the University of Texas tower admiring the view, a member of the school's staff happened to mention Henry Dunn, the caretaker who sends books to needy libraries overseas. Result: a full column in the EDUCATION section (TIME...
James Clement Dunn, 61, shrewd old pro of the foreign service (33 years), ambassador in Rome (1946-52) during the momentous 1948 elections which ended in a sound trouncing for the Communists (Dunn's work during the elections won him the State Department's Distinguished Service Award and an accolade from Secretary Dean Acheson): to become U.S. Ambassador to France, replacing David K. E. Bruce, recently appointed Under Secretary of State...
Ellsworth Bunker, 57, Manhattan businessman (board chairman, National Sugar Refining Co.) who went into the State Department only last year as Ambassador to Argentina, handled himself well enough in Peron's capital to be given a crack at a more important job: to take over Dunn's post in Italy...
...worldly little circle of summer friends taking their cues and comforts from well-heeled Sam and Sara Dunn, Sam's cousin Peter Cowley is a bit of a boob, but useful. Peter's job is to tame and tutor the circle's mischievous parcel of small fry in an impromptu summer school; his joy is to roam off into the woods alone munching an apple and chewing on the word of God. On one such solitary jaunt, he sees a vision, not God but a proof "that there is God, and that we matter...
...James Clement Dunn, 60, U.S. Ambassador to Italy since 1946. Slim, impeccably tailored, a conservative, wealthy man (his wife is the former Mary Armour of the meat-packing clan), he has been in the State Department for 33 years, has served as assistant to three Secretaries of State, as chief of the Division of European Affairs. Born in Newark, N.J., he became a practicing architect before entering the State Department as a clerk. Dunn's main job has been to keep Italy from falling under Communist control, by cajoling, chivying and maneuvering the. Italian government, without laying himself open...