Word: glumness
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Some of the clearest signs of progress showed in the Pentagon. A few months ago George Marshall and his assistant, Robert Lovett, had moved in to take over an establishment crippled by the false economies of Louis Johnson, glum with its own inadequacy. They had moved slowly at first, clearing up past mistakes, charting the new course. Now they could report health, optimism and a steadily accelerating pace of accomplishment. Last week their charts showed...
When Warren Austin took his seat in Lake Success' Conference Room 2, he appeared glum, unsmiling, solitary. Noticeably absent was the usual press of colleagues around him. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, a hero last summer, sat apart stonily and unhappily...
Captain Pilcher sat glum and alone And muttered with heart-rending moan: "The archbishop will float If he falls out the boat, While my fortunes will sink like a stone...
Between his week's more important chores, Harry Truman did penance for his hotheaded note to Washington Music Critic Paul Hume (TIME, Dec. 18). To his intimates, the President's moments of glum self-appraisal seemed mostly concerned with his daughter's instant reaction to the first news of the letter-her "absolutely positive" belief that her father would never use such language. The President was also a little taken aback at the worldwide sensation his mule skinner's phrasing...
When baseball's mightiest hitter, Ted Williams, shattered an elbow in the July All-Star game, the Boston Red Sox went on a glum search for a substitute leftfielder. The first man they tried, utility Outfielder Clyde Vollmer, was far from Ted's class. As the hard baseball saying goes, he couldn't even carry Williams' glove. Then scrawny (148 Ibs., 5 ft. 11 in.) Billy Goodman got a chance. It turned out that Billy could not only carry the Williams glove, he was pretty handy at hefting Williams' bat. This week, Billy Goodman...