Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul F. Griffin, of Wynnewood, Pa., went into "factory work and selling" after college, in 1940 got a law degree from Fordham, served with the Navy, later represented the Judge Advocate General's office on two Navy legal boards in Washington, and worked with the EGA in Germany. He is now executive secretary of the Armed Forces Regional Council of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Married, two children. Says he: "I know darned well the Rabbit was sincere when he said he didn't want the nomination...
Underground Roars. In recent years, the Post has had no firm hand at its helm. After the death of Grozier's son Richard in 1946, the paper was technically under the direction of two executors. Actually, City Editor Dunn, Managing Editor Charles R. Doyle and Sunday Editor John Griffin ran the editorial side pretty much as they liked. Sentimentally fond of the Post's slapdash makeup, they came to feel it was "just the way the readers like...
Mythology is full of strange animals like the hippogriff, a beast that is half horse and half griffin.* Last week came word of a proposed merger which would create a real-life business hybrid-part cow and part bus. The companies concerned, whose directors have already approved a stock swap, are ACF-Brill Motors Co., maker of buses and trackless trolleys, and Foremost Dairies, Inc., seller of milk, ice cream and other dairy products in the South and (through foreign subsidiaries) the Far East. For ACF-Brill, which just turned the profit corner last year, after three years of losses...
...trial, questioned their right to probation. When it turned out that three of the gamblers merely had the same names as actual men whose records were printed, the grand jury indicted the American Press for defaming the gamblers and for criticizing Sheriff Henry ("Ham") Reid and District Attorney Griffin Hawkins for not prosecuting them further...
...Clarence House, London, Queen Elizabeth II personally conferred the title of Honorary Knight of the British Empire on Manhattan Businessman William V. Griffin, president of the English-Speaking Union, director of TIME...