Word: f
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JOSEPH F. MAGEE...
...JOSEPH F. FOGARTY...
...battle lines were drawn. Behind Gabrielson were ex-Willkieites Ralph Cake of Oregon and Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts, hard-shelled ex-Chairmen Carroll Reece and Harrison Spangler, Minnesota's indefatigable Stassenite Mrs. F. Peavey Heffelfinger. Behind Dewey were many Westerners who resented the idea of a Wall Streeter in the chairmanship. Also behind Dewey was old Joe Grundy...
John P. Marquand, now leading the bestseller list himself, took a hard look at one of 1920's bestsellers and shrugged his shoulders: "What made [F. Scott Fitzgerald's] This Side of Paradise an immediate [hit] was no doubt its ... expose of the immoralities of the younger generation . . . Unfortunately, things have progressed so far that [today] one wishes that one's own children behaved as sensibly and nicely . . ." But Paradise was still "an exceptionally brilliant piece of work...
Retired Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, once something of a menace in Pacific waters himself, showed even less respect for his colleague, the atom bomb. "I don't think the people on the East Coast . . . quite realize what went on in the Pacific," the Bull told a reunion dinner of the Greenwich, Conn. "Old Twelfth" Artillery. "I don't think we had more than 500,000 or 750,000 men [out there, but] with those 750,000 we contained somewhere between two and three million Japanese, and notwithstanding the dropping of the atomic bomb-and that...