Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They stood and watched the police parachute-drop demonstration, U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy and his two sons, Clinton, 14, and Daniel, 9. Then handsome Jack Peurifoy and the boys got into his robin's-egg-blue Ford Thunderbird and headed back to the Thai beach resort of Hua Hin, 85 miles southwest of Bangkok, for lunch. It was a holiday outing, a lark for the boys, and just the occasion for Peurifoy to open up with his prized Thunderbird. He gunned it up to 70 m.p.h. and left his four-jeep police escort behind. They were used...
Open-Shirt Diplomacy. Peurifoy died as he lived-audaciously, dramatically, at high speed. Though anything but an orthodox diplomat. Jack Peurifoy had performed outstandingly in difficult assignments-Greece, Guatemala, Thailand. He was essentially a political operator-jaunty, backslapping, forever doing favors, confidential with correspondents, quick at sizing up the practicalities of a situation, ever willing to take the apparently radical course from which the highly trained, career-conscious professionals are likely to hang back. Said Peurifoy once: "The State Department was ripe for guys like...
...diplomat of a different sort. He preferred open shirts and slacks to striped pants, driving his fast cars to riding in limousines, and man-to-man talk to courtly ambiguities. In Athens, as U.S. ambassador, he started out by telling Premier Sophocles Venizelos: "Look, Soph, you call me Jack. Let's talk frankly about all this." Within two years, by his direct methods, he had helped to install a strong, anti-Communist government and to raise U.S. prestige...
...comes along." When the anti-Arbenz pressure exploded into revolution last year, Peurifoy, sport-shirted and packing a pistol, maneuvered the rival revolutionary chieftains into an agreement and averted a nasty civil war. As the U.S. saluted the ouster of Guatemala's Communists as a major victory, ambitious Jack Peurifoy was off to Bangkok to succeed "Wild Bill" Donovan as Ambassador to Thailand. There he made fast friends with Premier Phibun Songgram, who himself drives a swift Mercedes...
...Says the script: "Please note that as the tour goes through the Red Lion, you are to serve the guests from our Irish mugs 'arf and 'arf." At the pre-opening "Victory Dinner," Host Hilton will wine and woo some 400 guests with a show by Comedians Jack Benny and George Gobel, spread out a feast costing Hilton $30 per plate...