Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gavin paused for breath, Subcommittee Chairman Lyndon Johnson asked him: "Do you anticipate any criticism as a result of your very frank responses to [our] questions?" Replied West Pointer Gavin: "No sir, I do not." Last week, to the surprise of his closest friends, Jim Gavin-often called the most important man in the Army-announced that he will retire in March, after 30 years of service...
...Panel II, one of seven panels set up in the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc. of New York. Co-signers of the Defense Report: Investment Banker Frank Altschul, vice president, Council on Foreign Relations; General (ret.) Frederick L. Anderson, commander of the Eighth Bomber Command in World War II; onetime Assistant Secretary of the Army Karl R. Bendetsen; President Detlev W. Bronk of the National Academy of Sciences; former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean; Physicist James B. Fisk of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; Investment Banker Bradley Gaylord; Lawyer Roswell L. Gilpatric, former Under Secretary...
...years. Historian J. Frank Dobie, onetime "Professor Pancho" of the University of Texas, has sounded off on everything from the writing of Ph.D. theses ("transferring bones from one graveyard to another") to a onetime U. of T. president ("a flunky of the Laval pattern"). Last week he was off again when a reporter from the Houston Post asked him to say a few words about U.S. education...
...Hayes, "infinitely more money is being wasted in welfare and pension programs than is being stolen." The foundation has already shown that a welfare fund can save thousands of dollars simply by smarter management, e.g., competitive bidding on health-insurance contracts. Corporations have also been at fault. Vice President Frank B. Cliffe, of H. J. Heinz Co. and pension expert for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, lays heavy blame for abuses in jointly run welfare plans on neglect by management, which "thought its obligations ended with the payment of its contributions...
...first time since the Herald started its balloting 26 years ago. Scratched in the past year: Marilyn Monroe and Kim Novak. The new all-male marquee names hailed as dollar signs by exhibitors: 1) Rock Hudson, 2) John Wayne, 3) Pat Boone, 4) Elvis Presley, 5) Frank Sinatra, 6) Gary Cooper, 7) William Holden, 8) James Stewart, 9) Jerry Lewis, 10) Yul Brynner...