Word: johnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bride was composed, the groom was nervous and muffed his lines. In St. John's Methodist Church in St. Louis before a gathering in which newsmen outnumbered relatives two to one, Vice President Alben Barkley married Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley. She is 38; he will be 72 this week...
...Navy's Captain John G. Crommelin was apparently unaware that the game was over; he was still shouting his defiance at the empty stands. Replying to the public reprimand administered to him by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest Sherman, Airman Crommelin was as truculent as ever. He wanted the reprimand expunged from his record, or a court-martial where he would have a chance to explain why he had released confidential Navy correspondence to the press, thereby setting off last month's revolt of the admirals...
...John R. Marsh, her husband, told how a careering car ran her down as they were crossing Peachtree Street on the night of August II. "That is something I saw and I am afraid I will see the rest of my life," he said in a low voice...
Aboard the big bomber, Lieut. Colonel John Grable Jr. remembered later, he had passed the ditching order back through the intercom: "It wasn't the nicest thing to tell the boys because the seas were running high. We threw everything into the sea that we didn't need. We got all the rest of our stuff together and looked down at the ocean." Then, somewhere about 400 miles northeast of Bermuda, the B-29 smacked into the rolling Atlantic swell with a rending jolt. There was another jolt as the big bomber's high-finned tail snapped...
Last week they found a man to direct the job. Their choice: John Davenport, a member of FORTUNE'S board of editors since 1937, longtime friend of London Economist Editor Geoffrey Crowther. Lean, intense and articulate, new Editor Davenport, 45, is a Yaleman ('26), yachtsman (he sails his own 45-ft. cutter) and an alumnus of the New York World...