Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The new Under Secretary of State, James Edwin Webb, at 42 is a swiftly rising star in the Administration. A broad-shouldered and affable North Carolinian, Webb is a lawyer and a former vice president of the Sperry Corp. A pilot, he was a wartime Stateside major in Marine aviation...
¶A Chicago publicity man named James Mangan announced that he had founded a new "sovereign power . . . known as the nation of Celestial Space." He presented a fancy document to the Cook County Recorder, staking out a claim to "space in all directions . . . specifically exempting . . . every celestial body, whether star...
Bob Mathias, who outran, out-jumped, and out-threw 34 of the world's best last summer to become the youngest (17) Olympic decathlon champion in history, became the youngest to win the James E. Sullivan Memorial Award as 1948's amateur of the year. He also ran...
When the two competing newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, offered to sell out to Publisher James M. Cox last summer, he was "a bit shocked." Ohio's spry, old ex-governor and Democratic presidential candidate (1920) doesn't "like newspaper monopolies." But a careful look at the books changed...
At 78, "The Governor" (as his staffers call him) keeps a sharp eye on his other papers, the Springfield (Ohio) News and Sun, the Atlanta Journal, the Miami News, and his three radio stations. His efficient, reticent son, James Jr., 45, is second in command. The Governor does most of...