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Standing before the fireplace in his Washington home one night last week, big Theron Lamar Caudle was not his jovial self. He shifted nervously from foot to foot, and smacked a clenched fist again & again into the open palm of his hand. Reporters were filing into the house to hear what Caudle, chief of the Justice Department's tax division, had to say in defense of himself...
Meeting on the night of Liaquat's death, the Pakistan cabinet appointed as his successor Khwaja Nazimuddin. Roly-poly Nazimuddin, 57, who looks like a jovial friar in his long black Moslem coat, has been Governor General of Pakistan since 1948. Educated-like Nehru-at Cambridge, Nazimuddin opposed British rule in India, rose to be Premier of his native East Bengal, and in 1946 renounced his British knighthood. He is a devout Moslem, has made the pilgrimage to Mecca...
...down. When one fan insisted that bookkeeper was the only English word with three double letters, Mewhinney gave him at least three more: "Poo-peepee (a seaman who is peeped at from a poop deck), raccoonnookkeeper (the custodian of a coon hollow) and barroom-moodduller (one who dulls the jovial mood in a barroom)." When another reader asked him to explain the Truman Doctrine in one-syllable words, Mewhinney obliged-in 285 one-syllable words...
Angry cries of protest sounded throughout Alabama and Mississippi. The 31st's commander, Major General Alexander G. Paxton, announced that morale and training had "hit a new low." Alabama's fat and usually jovial Representative Frank Boykin boiled up, introduced in Congress a sweeping resolution designed to stop the Army from breaking up National Guard divisions. Among its provisions: "In any case where a division of the . . . National Guard shall have been ordered into the active military service of the United States, no unit or component of such division shall be separated, detached, or otherwise removed from...
Personality: Sturdy (5 ft. 7 in., 165 Ibs.), jovial, harddriving, outspoken. In the field, eats and sleeps little. Though sociable, likes to spend his first hour after waking in the morning in solitary thought and with a good smoke. Like most French generals, has a flair for smart uniforms, gloves and boots. Speaks heavily accented English...