Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weight throw, another injured man, Jim Doty, upset all predictions by winning the event with a 56 ft., 6 1/2 in. heave, just four inches off the University indoor record...
NOTHING will stir a Filipino newsman into excited conversation faster these days than a mention of Jim Bell, TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief. Last week two big Philippine newspapers, the Manila Times and Bulletin, protested editorially against President Carlos Garcia's recent decision to ban Bell from the Philippines for reporting the corruption and increasing anti-Americanism of Garcia's government (TIME, Feb. 2). Said the Times: "The broad principles of press freedom are threatened by the President's attitude toward the Bell case." In almost 15 years as one of TIME...
Almost as well known was Jim Smith's yen for Gates's job after he finished a self-imposed two-year ICA tour. Smith, a wartime carrier pilot and postwar Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air (1953-56), appeared a natural to become Secretary. But Gates, with White House approval, offered the job to Under Secretary William Birrell Franke (rhymes with lanky), 64, wealthy retired accountant and since 1954 a quietly competent assistant secretary for financial management. When Franke declined for health reasons (arthritis), Gates suggested Smith...
Trouble was that Senate Republicans, who like Gates, dislike able, impetuous Jim Smith. As ICA boss he was known to boil over at Congressmen, to refuse jobs to Republican politicians because politics made them "controversial."' Quickly New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and other G.O.P. members of the Senate Appropriations and Armed Services Committees passed the word to G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn that Smith as Navy Secretary was no go. On that basis Gates persuaded Franke, by then considerably recovered, to reconsider...
Last week, with Franke's promotion official, disappointed Jim Smith went home to Aspen, Colo. Gates prepared to leave June 1, after the Navy's 1960 budget passes. Last week also a third disappointed man popped up. Grieved was G.O.P. Chairman Alcorn. who had done no more than listen to congressional advice, had been clobbered in print as the man who put the finger on Independent Republican Smith...