Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Dr. Herman Baruch (younger brother of elder statesman Bernie), whose resignation as U.S. ambassador to The Netherlands was recently accepted, explained why he had chucked diplomacy. At 77, he said, he simply could not bring himself to face another one of those clammy Dutch winters...
...Army generals who had been suspended from duty since they bobbed up in the Senate's investigation of five-percenters (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.) got the word from on high last week. Major General Herman Feldman was reprimanded for passing out information on Government purchasing plans, but restored to duty as the Army's Quartermaster General. Major General Alden H. Waitt, 56, who had tried to wangle a second term as chief of the Chemical Corps by running down all his potential rivals, was sacked: he went into retirement on a $6,600-a-year pension...
...first, all Herman Melville wanted to do was to write an exciting story. His earlier novels, lively adventure stories of the South Seas, were gobbled up by the public and he was a quick success. In 1850, the cocky young writer set his hand to turning out another brisk and profitable sea tale. But what began as an uncomplicated whaling yarn ended as Moby-Dick, a masterpiece dense with symbolic meanings...
...Major General Herman Feldman, 59, who joined the Army as a private 42 years ago and climbed to the post of Quartermaster General, in charge of $1.8 billion a year in Army spending. Feldman was suspended, said Army Secretary Gordon Gray, because of indications that he "furnished a contractor's representative procurement information under circumstances which appear irregular...
...first Tarzan (1918) was strong, silent Elmo Lincoln. Best-known was Olympic Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, who eventually grew too fat, after appearing in twelve of the 25 pictures (in his six most memorable ones, Maureen O'Sullivan played Jane). Three other Olympic athletes have also been Tarzans: Herman Brix, Buster Crabbe and Glenn Morris...