Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rueful Laugh. Though Boss Arvey's candidates were political newcomers, they were newcomers who might be more promising than many a well-known party hack. His men: Adlai Stevenson, 47, the U.S.'s alternate delegate to the U.N., who will run against shopworn Governor Dwight H. Green; and Paul Douglas, 55, University of Chicago professor of economics, who will try to unhorse rabble-rousing Senator C. Wayland Brooks...
Atop gloomy Government House, where the Union Jack had flown for 62 years, the new red-white-&-blue Burmese flag fluttered. Sir Hubert Rance, Britain's last governor of Burma, emerged from the building, drove to the pier. He boarded the hulking British cruiser H.M.S. Birmingham and, like Thibaw, sailed from Burma's shores...
...colonial heyday, Burma had been a joy and profit to the British Empire. It was rich in rice, teak, petroleum and jewels; its amiable people (according to one historian) "caused no governor-general a sleepless night." In 1942 the British awoke; as British troops retreated from Burma, the conquering Japanese made quick friends among Burmese politicians. In 1943, the British returned as liberators, but only to prepare a graceful exit...
Married. Thomas J.Herbert, 53, round-faced, silver-haired governor of Ohio; and Mildred Helen Stevenson, 40, his doctor's secretary; each for the second time; in Indianapolis...
...tidy, tree-studded campus of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute this week, Negroes and whites (including Alabama's governor) will honor a onetime slave who was once traded by his master for a broken-down race horse. Shy, shuffling George Washington Carver, who died in 1943, had spent a lifetime performing scientific miracles. In his tiny laboratory, which he equipped from a rubbish heap on the campus, he had created hundreds of industrial products out of the common stuff-clay, peanuts, potatoes-he found about...