Word: johnson
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Over the loud objections of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, the U.S. decided last week to cuddle up a little closer to rebel Communist Tito. The first step was the sale of a $3,000,000 blooming mill to help out Yugoslavia's steel industry. The next would probably be a World Bank loan. Johnson and his military advisers, who see no point in helping a potential enemy and believe that a Communist is a Communist, had fought for months against the idea. But Secretary of State Dean Acheson argued that doing Dictator Tito a few favors...
With his signature, the National Military Establishment was rechristened the Department of Defense and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson became the first U.S. Secretary equipped with the power to unite effectively all U.S. armed forces...
...Under Johnson and Bradley, a new team of top defense officials this week went to work. To succeed Bradley as Army Chief of Staff, the President named hardy, crisp-spoken 53-year-old General J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins, whose string of World War II campaigns stretched from Guadalcanal to the Rhine...
...eight chests contained 1,300 unpublished pages of the Life of Samuel Johnson, Boswell's diary, the complete manuscript of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Boswell's correspondence with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, David Garrick and Voltaire. Isham had always wanted a place like his alma mater to have them. Last week, Yale bought them all with funds supplied by the McGraw-Hill Co." (which will have exclusive publishing rights) and the Old Dominion Foundation (founded by Paul Mellon, Yale...
...team of scholars under Professor Frederick A. Pottle (Yale '21) had already begun the job of sorting and editing. Eventually there will probably be a new Life of Johnson and a definitive biography of Boswell, together with volumes of correspondence and hitherto unknown poems by Johnson, and essays by Reynolds, which are included in the Isham collection. Scholars guessed that those books would be only the beginning. From now on, it seemed, no 18th Century scholar would be up on his subject unless he had spent some time at Yale...