Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic side, dozens of names popped up, but one stood out: Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, the only Democrat holding a major elective office in California. A pleasant political neutralist of the Warren stripe, Brown had announced that he would not run against the governor, but he was ready to go now that his old friend had stepped out. Said he: "I think the Democrats now will elect a governor next year...
...wind-scoured top of Mt. Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary planted a crucifix, he told a reporter last week.* The small fiber cross had been given to the expedition's leader, Sir John Hunt, by "an English Roman Catholic father," he said, though "actually none of the Everest team was a Catholic ... It was in a small envelope about half the usual size. When we reached the summit, I remembered the crucifix and stuffed the whole thing, envelope and all, in the snow alongside Tenzing's [Buddhist] offering...
LIEUT. CMDR. PICKETT LUMPKIN LIEUT. EDMUND L. CASTILLO...
Home to a tumultuous welcome in Papakura, New Zealand, Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mt. Everest, made all sorts of news. He announced plans to marry a New Zealand music student in September; obliged photographers by flopping his 6 ft. 3 in. into a symbolic white victory chair built on skis which admirers presented to him; and he told how he first heard of his knighthood. "We were strolling down a mountain pass about halfway to Katmandu," he said. "We had long beards and looked extremely disreputable-in fact, like I do in Papakura. A Sherpa came along with...
...three months since he left his Chicago textile company to take on the world's biggest housekeeping job, General Cervices Administrator Edmund F. Mansure, 52, has found so many ways to save the Government money that he is becoming almost as legendary an economizer as was parsimonious Cal Coolidge. Mansure is so meticulous that when eating beef hash, he separates the meat from the potatoes. Unlike most bureaucrats who throw away paper clips, Mansure keeps his until he has a big enough pile to turn over to his secretary. Aware that time is also money, he saves it with...