Word: halseyisms
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...spent the afternoon and one more day in Virginia, enjoying the holiday from Washington's steamy heat, strolling over the wooded, 210-acre estate of Stanley Woodward, State Department protocol chief, going to a cocktail party given for the press by Admiral William F. Halsey. Then, at the wheel of an open convertible, he drove back to Washington at a steady 50-mile clip (several times hitting 65 on the straightaway). At Memorial Bridge a Secret Serviceman took over and Harry Truman rode soberly on to the White House, to pick up his cudgels...
Hibbs ruthlessly trimmed his text, liberally boosted his prices (up to $600 for pieces by beginners and $1,500 for old hands). He pays $2,500 for a Norman Rockwell cover, laid out $60,000 for Admiral Halsey's forthcoming memoirs. He banished prettified dog portraits and elaborately styled gag covers, made the word Post stand out on the cover, and the words Saturday-Evening seem almost whispered. (The accent is the same in the radio plugs and the Post's smart promotion ads.) The success stories changed: "Today," Hibbs says, "we'd rather talk about...
Coach Bill Halsey's ski team climaxed a season of steady improvement by defeating Dartmouth yesterday in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom race, Led by Gerry Genn, who finished second in 1 minute, 24 seconds, the Crimson...
...stated, "but we need snow around Boston to practice; then we'll be up with the best half-dozen teams in the East." The skimen have been hampered this season by an almost complete lack of snow on local practice slopes, but under the able guidance of Coach Bill Halsey 3G, former Dartmouth star, the team has gained enough importance to be granted recognition as a regular Varsity by the H.A.A...
Columbia's blossoms blanketed all the brass in sight. Honorarily LL.D.'d, besides Marshall and Halsey: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral Ernest J. King, General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land (ret.), Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Major General Norman T. Kirk and (in absentia) General Henry H. Arnold and General Douglas MacArthur...