Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike St. Paul, however, TSM has green eyes, greying brown hair, a deceptively formidable exterior, and an indestructible appetite for good celery, good tennis, and good English prose. A parson's son (his father is the retired Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey), he came to TIME via Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was born, Princeton (A.B.), Oxford (B.A.), and an associate editorship of the New Republic. Father of four (boys), he is a soft touch for his family, but a "hard" man with his staff-especially with novice writers and researchers who haven't learned that erudition and journalism...
...They were three Democrats: New Mexico's Carl Hatch, Virginia's Harry Byrd and Louisiana's Allen J. Ellender; and three Republicans: New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith, Ohio's Robert A. Taft and Minnesota's Joseph Ball...
...Jersey: Republicans decisively picked conservative Alfred E. Driscoll, organization gubernatorial candidate, over pudgy, flamboyant Harold G. Hoffman. Hoffman, in uniform during both World Wars, hammered at his opponent's lack of a war record. Driscoll hammered more tellingly at Hoffman's erratic conduct as governor during the Hauptmann trial and his connections with Democratic Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City...
...Supply Corps School, the nation's only school devoted exclusively to the training of Naval officers for supplying, clothing, feeding, and paying U.S. Naval personnel, will be moved to the Naval Supply Operational Training Center at Bayonne, New Jersey...
...Latin test alone is Richard A. Webster of Loomis. Honorable mention went to Geoffrey Bush, of Phillips Academy, Andover, and Stephen B. Baxter, of St. Paul's School, for the joint competition, and to George J. Kandzie, of Hingham High School, and William Gifford, of Plainfield (New Jersey) High School, for the single examination award...