Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Typical of correspondents' search for the war was the trip last week of LIFE Photographer John Dominis, the Associated Press's John Griffin, and Magnum Photographer Marc Riboud. Armed with a letter from rebel headquarters giving them passage to the front, the trio set out in a wayward bus named Picnic. Stumbling across a battle convoy, they produced the letter-only to learn that they were among government troops...
Anxious to become a world seaport, Bainbridge, Ga. (pop. 7,562) enjoys two advantages: 1) it straddles the Flint River, 105 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; 2) it is the home town of Georgia's frog-voiced Governor S. (for Samuel) Marvin Griffin. Last week a state senate investigating committee complained that Bainbridge's home-town boy has been doing too much in trying to overcome nature's oversights. The Griffin administration has spent half a million dollars for a 400-ft. pier, a transit shed and sulphur unloading facilities. And along with brother Cheney Griffin...
...senate's attempt to nail Governor Griffin, who once ruled both houses of the legislature with little trouble, signaled that Griffin has run head on into Georgia Kingmaker Herman Talmadge, his predecessor as governor and now Georgia's junior U.S. Senator. Under Georgia law, Griffin may not run again at term's end. Talmadge and his U.S. Senate colleague, Richard Russell, want Lieut. Governor Ernest Vandiver for Georgia's next governor. Griffin is backing former State Highway Board Chairman Roger H. Lawson, presumably because Lawson would turn the governor's chair back to Griffin...
Watching the web weave around him, Marv Griffin last week summoned newsman and investigating senators to his ornate office, snapped off a defiant but undiplomatic double negative: "I ain't got no apologies to make." Griffin's enemies gleefully prepared to push more evidence under senatorial eyes, wondered meanwhile when the governor would return to his favorite role of No. 1 Southern white supremacist. Said one Griffin opponent: "Every time he gets in trouble, he talks about segregation...
Died. William Vincent Griffin, 72, longtime vice chairman of the board of directors of TIME, INC.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After Yale, where he took an LL.B. ('08) and a B.A. ('12), wise, devoted Bill Griffin started a business career without any sign of a silver spoon, became a trustee of the estate of James C. Brady and chairman of the board of the Brady Security & Realty Corp.; invested in Chrysler in the '205, was soon a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Manhattan, Continental Oil Co. and more than...