Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whose Bombers? A more important question for Jim, Forrestal to decide concerned the use of strategic airpower. The Navy still thought of itself as the nation's first line of attack, refused to surrender the function of using strategic airpower-in this case, short-range bombers...
Alabama's hulking Governor "Big Jim" Folsom hulked into Manhattan to be installed as "No. 1 Leap Year Bachelor" by the publicity-conscious Barbizon Studio of Fashion Modeling. In the course of a much-photographed kissing tour of the city, he managed to stop traffic on Fifth Avenue.* He also delivered himself of an opinion on the Marshall Plan which disclosed that he had not altogether forgotten the paternity suit against him (TIME, March 15): "When it comes a-weanin' time [those European countries] are gonna squeal. You ever weaned a baby, honey? No? You try it, honey...
Harvard University's Rugby Football Club, known more familiarly as the rugby team, after pre-war years of "unofficial" activity followed by three inactive seasons, has finally emerged from the doldrums with the athletic prize of the decade. Coach Jim Nuland and 17 players will leave by plane from New York March 28, to participate in Bermuda's Rugby Week over the Easter vacation...
...will be patrolling the outfield come the end of the month and the first game. Left over from last year are Len Lunder and John Caulfield. Pressing for positions out near the far walls are Dick Kobusch and a contingent from the football team including Chip Gannon and Jim Kenary...
...There are obvious reasons. First, William Randolph Hearst endorses MacArthur; second, so does Jim Curley; third, MacArthur used to enjoy posing for glorifying propaganda pictures. The few arguments in his favor don't balance the equation. The successful management of the Pacific campaign and the efficient administration of Japan after V-J Day don't mean a thing. No, the irretrievable damnation of self-esteem outweighs whatever might be said for him. He likes to dress up too much; he is a propagandist; he thinks a lot of himself, like Teddy Roosevelt did. Come hell or Henry Wallace, we must...