Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rival Second Army.) Lodge met Eisenhower, was an admirer from then on; he started publicly plugging Ike for President as far back as 1950. In November 1951, before General Eisenhower agreed to run, the three-D Ikemen (New York's Governor Tom Dewey, Pennsylvania's Governor Jim Duff, Kansas' ex-Senator Harry Darby) tabbed Lodge to manage the Ike campaign for the nomination...
...going out to write and raise a rumpus and things," said Lieut. General James M. ("Slim Jim") Gavin, 50, Army Research and Development chief, when he announced his retirement from the service seven months ago, after losing his battle to get a healthy boost in his 1959 budget (TIME, Jan. 13). This week LIFE published the second of two installments on Gavin's quickly written 304-page book, War and Peace in the Space Age (Harper; $5), a rumpus-raising attack on his old enemies and a sharp accusation that the Army is in bad shape technologically because...
Hard Way or Holloway? Having thus helped demobilize the Navy, Holloway next took on the job of rebuilding that was to give the Navy a permanent new stamp. Name of stamp: the Holloway Plan. At Navy Secretary Jim Forrestal's command, he empaneled a group of Navy officers and civilian education experts, e.g., Illinois Institute of Technology's President Henry T. Heald, Williams College's President James P. Baxter III, brought forth a trailblazing plan to use the nation's colleges not only to produce Navy R.O.T.C. officers but to train regular naval and Marine Corps...
...never had Jim Holloway played so far above his own head. For 3^ years his wife Jean, daughter of Major General Johnson Hagood, U.S.A., was incurably ill with cancer. Holloway would leave his quarters in Washington at 6:20 a.m., play a lonely nine holes of golf with his single adjustable-head golf club at the Army and Navy Country Club, put in a full day's work with not a mention of his wife's illness, then spend the evening at the hospital with her before taking a long walk home, as he put it, "to become...
...Night Session (Hampton Hawes Quartet; Contemporary, 3 LPs) seems designed to prove Composer Babbitt wrong, and to show once again that real jazz must be improvised. Pianist Hawes, Guitarist Jim Hall, Bass Player Red Mitchell and Drummer Bruz Freeman turned up at the studio one night and piled into Jordu and Groovin' High, and from there on "we just played because we love to play." The result is one of the few genuine jam sessions on LPs. The quartet offers some effervescent readings of blues and ballads, including four numbers composed on the spot by Pianist Hawes. For listeners...