Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff, if uncompelled to tread the grand old party line, is admirably equipped to supply. We are at a crossroads in foreign policy, atomic policy, domestic policy--and a well informed citizenry is our best insurance against disastrous delusions, irretrievable mistakes and, again to borrow a TIMEphrase, World War III...
...take in other routine beats: City Hall, criminal courts, school, labor, etc. After that, he will hit the high spots in each of the Sun's editorial departments, winding up in London to give foreign reporting a once-over under Sun veteran Frederick Kuh. "Then," says Marshall Field III, "he'll settle down to some one job, but I don't know yet what it'll be. I'm very proud of him, but I suppose that's natural...
...Field III has reason to be proud. Handsome, unpretentious Field IV graduated from Harvard magna cum laude; at the University of Virginia Law School he was editor of the Law Review and president of his class. He enlisted in the Navy the day after Pearl Harbor, took part in twelve major engagements, came back with the Purple Heart, the Silver Star and a Presidential Citation...
Needham, George F., III...
...nonsense teaching that made the old man the South's leading prep-school educator for more than 50 years. The headmaster now is Old Sawney's son, William Robert Webb Jr., 72 himself. And one of the newest faculty members is Grandson William Robert Webb III, just back from the wars. About 2,000 miles away, at Claremont, Calif., Sawney's youngest son. jovial, pipe-smoking Thompson Webb, 58, was about to begin another year at the 24-year-old Webb School of California...