Word: griffith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German, French and Italian, with a scholastic background of study at Vassar, Barnard and the University of Berlin. This year she learned how TIME handles its network of foreign correspondents and the flow of international news to the magazine. She worked as secretary to Foreign News Editor Thomas Griffith. At night she studied journalism and comparative literature at Columbia University...
Robert W. Boyd Jr., Edward O. Cerf, Thomas Griffith...
...finally, she met the man she wanted to marry: John MacBride, "a wiry, soldierly looking man, with red hair and skin burned brick red by the South African sun" (where he had been commander of a volunteer brigade fighting for the Boers against the British). Wrote Sinn Feiner Arthur Griffith to them: "For your own sakes and for the sake of Ireland to whom you both belong, don't get married." But they did, with joy plotting together enough potential terrorism to sink the British Empire. But temperament drove them apart, and two years later they separated...
...physician, Dr. Howard M. Snyder, led him quickly into a small reception room, where he slumped, weak and spread-legged, on a chair to rest and sip a little coffee. But an all-but-sacred presidential duty awaited him-an hour later he was at Washington's Griffith Stadium to throw out the first baseball of the season. Rest had improved his color. He spat on his right hand, grinned, and sent a new white baseball flying to the field, watched the game for an inning and a half (with Washington's Pitcher Connie Marrero standing...
Washington's Griffith Stadium. Riding a tailwind, the ball sailed over the left-centerfield bleachers 460 ft. away, bounced off a 60-ft. sign, and came to rest in a backyard 565 ft. from home plate. "I unloaded on it," said Mickey Mantle. "I guess it was the longest ball I ever hit in my life...