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...receives an income handsome enough to surround himself with the trappings of the luxurious life. These include suits faultlessly hand-tailored on London's Savile Row, and what he calls the "excessive comfort" of a plush bachelor's house on Dumbarton Avenue in Washington's Georgetown. He is respected, if not loved, by federal officialdom, which he frequently treats with the loftiness of the master ordering his vassals into line. "Admiral," he once said frostily, rising and thereby terminating an interview with Lewis Strauss, then special assistant to the President on atomic-energy matters, "you have wasted...
...Georgetown University...
...book is largely based on documents that came to light after World War II, when German archives fell into Allied hands, and on exhaustive studies by a research group under Dr. Stephan T. Possony, Georgetown University professor of international relations. Commissioned by LIFE (which also sponsored part of the studies), Australian Author-Journalist Moorehead (Gallipoli) has done an outstanding job of sifting the raw material and fashioning a coherent, exciting story...
Weight Lifters. In Georgetown, Ky., P.S. Hickey, hauling watermelons, pulled his truck into a state weighing station, returned later on the tip-off of another driver and found six slobbering state employees stowing away part of his load...
...joined the Navy in World War I, started a 13-year flying hitch that produced such acrobatic innovations as the inverted falling leaf, made him one of the many fathers of dive-bombing, ended when he resigned from the regular Navy in 1930 in protest against sea duty. A Georgetown-trained lawyer, he was no less articulate than air-minded, wrote a syndicated Scripps-Howard newspaper column while he worked as flying salesman and good-will man for Gulf Oil Co., meanwhile kept a part-time military franchise with a Marine Corps Reserve commission. For advocating a separate...