Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week there were signs that the Greeks were ready to move in a spring offensive against Markos. In Athens, the staff of burly, battlewise Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, chief U.S. military adviser to Greece, has been working out plans for an offensive against the Communist-led guerrillas. Hailing the Pieria action as "a splendid victory," Van Fleet was showing a knack for getting action out of reluctant guerrilla hunters...
When Editor R. M. Barrington-Ward left on a voyage last winter, Deputy Editor Casey moved into the magnificently shabby Editors Room at Printing House Square. When Barrington-Ward died in Tanganyika, nobody expected Casey to succeed him. Fleet Street rumors pointed to the Economist's brilliant Editor Geoffrey Crowther or the Times's Senior Assistant Editor Donald Tyerman (whom Tories consider too far left); Colonel the Hon. John Jacob Astor, who owns a controlling interest in the Times, couldn't get Crowther so didn't try, and needed Tyerman where he was. He decided...
...party tactics. Today the Herald prints very few stories of sex and adventure but more than ardent Laborites think it should; it also prints more stories about Labor and the trade unions than readers of the rival Daily Mail and Express want to labor through. Though duller than its Fleet Street rivals, the Herald is London's third largest daily paper, and the only one which steadily supports Labor...
Miracle of Fleet Street. The Herald was born in a printers' strike in 1911, when the printers took their case to the public in a four-page sheet (price: one halfpenny). Three months later, when the printers won their demands and returned to their own papers, they gave up the Daily Herald and its 20,000 readers...
Born. To Catherine Vance Nimitz Lay, 34, eldest daughter of retired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and Commander James Thomas Lay, 39, commanding officer of the destroyer Orleck: twin sons, their second and third; in San Diego. Names: Chester Nimitz, Richard Freeman. Weights...