Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year), the Democratic National Committee came to a typical solution: Why not hand them over to jobless and deserving Democratic politicians? In that way, the Administration inherited Melvin Ernest Thompson, who was Georgia's acting governor between the reigns of Gene Talmadge and his son, Herman...
...trouble was that Herman Talmadge would not have Thompson as Georgia's price boss; the Administration could have found that out by asking him before Thompson ever came to Washington. But Thompson was already in the capital, so he was shunted from job to useless job. He complained to Harry Truman, who promised to look into it, but still the farce went on. Last week he packed his bag and left Washington with a loud blast...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
Harvard will today become the second Ivy League football team to enjoy the services of an "extra" head coach when Henry R. "Bob" Margarita, erstwhile gridiron boss at Georgetown, returns to Cambridge. Yale's Herman Hickman set the pattern a month ago when he appointed Forrest "Peahead" Walker, of Wake Forest, to the Eli staff...
...Caine Mutiny, Novelist Herman Wouk (Aurora Dawn, The City Boy) has tackled a problem of considerably greater moment than those confronted by the personal-gripe, crushed-sensitive-youth school of U.S. war novelists (Norman Mailer, James Jones). What, he asks in effect, is of first consequence: the sprinkling of nasty little Queegs and the irritations suffered by their subordinates, or the good sense and steady drive of the Willie Keiths in the face of pressures they had never expected to meet...