Word: f
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crommelin got some hearty support. Five-star Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, after lunching with Crommelin in his Washington home, declared: "He deserves the help and respect of all naval officers." In the Pentagon, there was stunned silence, then a rustle of conferring Navy brass. Hastily, Crommelin was yanked from his job with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but was plopped into a better billet: director of naval-aviation personnel. It was a rear admiral...
...Reliable. The machine clanked to a dismal crawl. But handsome William F. Meade, a 44-year-old ex-ward leader who had mounted to the driver's seat only three days before the scandals began, seemed almost pleased. A tough, square-jawed Irishman, he had come to the chairmanship of the Republican Central Campaign Committee from the squalid slums of the Tenth Ward (known as the Old Reliable because it never fails to produce a Republican majority). He went to work at 14, climbed up through the machine's hierarchy by ambition, hustle, a fast smile...
...current Bacteriological Reviews, Dr. Paul F. Clark of the University of Wisconsin's Medical School and five fellow bacteriologists summarize all that is known today, mostly based on experiments with animals, about the effect of diet on infectious disease. Their summation: sometimes diet helps, sometimes...
...Criminal Mind. In Clearwater, Fla., 14 green flags stolen from the Clear-water Country Club last Christmas were returned with a note: "Sorry but we can't find any use for these." In Wichita Falls, Tex., F. D. Clark reported the disappearance of a 30-ft. telephone pole from Pocahontas Street. In New Brunswick, N.J., Kenneth Bergen's stolen sport jacket and two pairs of slacks were returned with a note: "Too small...
Battle Stations. In St. Louis, during an argument in Sportsman's Park, Baseball Fan Joseph Cherry took off his glasses, removed his false teeth, then punched Usher William F. Goza in the nose...