Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five days after the death of Justice Wiley B. Rutledge, the President announced that he had already picked his man. The new justice would be Judge Sherman Minton of the U.S. circuit court of appeals, onetime big voice in New Deal mob scenes, onetime Senator from Indiana, longtime fast friend of Missouri's ex-Senator Harry Truman...
...Black Robe. He never lost touch with his old friend in the capital. Last week the telephone call from the White House finally came to the commodious New Albany home where Judge Minton sat nursing a broken leg. (He tripped on a stone outside his home.) "Harry told me he was naming me and asked what I thought about it," said the judge. "I told him I thought it was wonderful...
...Anglo-U.S. amity in history, there is many a serpent in that garden of friendship. Unique in history is the place of a dominant world power which gave way, without defeat in war, to a new dominant power and accepted the role of helper and next friend of the new leader. Such a transition is not accomplished without pain and tension. Part of Sir Oliver's job is to ease the pain, to save face for his government. In the recent monetary crisis that led to the pound's devaluation (see above), Sir Oliver performed, behind...
Franks lacks Reading's vast experience of affairs. Lothian's enthusiasm and Halifax's impelling warmth. But Franks is in his own right an interesting specimen of homo britannicus. As a friend summed him up recently: "Franks believes passionately in the Sermon on the Mount, but he does not think that, unaided by men of intelligence like himself, the Sermon can do it all alone...
...blocks east to Fifth (where a garment is a creation, a line a collection and a dearie a darling). After a session with the hairdresser (Lisa's hair, which used to be black and then red, is now ash blonde), she rushed to a sitting with old friend Horst at the Vogue studios. Two hours later, she raced on (without stopping for lunch) to another sitting with Photographer Henry Gravneek. She retouched her make-up in the taxi. Says she: "It makes for the most interesting variations depending on which way the driver takes the bumps." As she entered...