Word: kansan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mustached Julius Holmes, 55, has had a career as varied as the intricate pattern of a Persian rug. A Kansan* who entered the Foreign Service in 1925, he served at four Mediterranean and Balkan posts before returning to Washington as assistant chief of protocol. In 1937 Protocol Expert Holmes resigned to become vice president of the New York World's Fair and, in effect, Grover Whalen's secretary of state...
...late in 1939, a tall, slender Kansan flew to New York to show the wartime British Purchasing Commission a light, twin-engined plane he hoped to sell as a trainer for fledgling pilots. Before he could close the deal, Dwane L. Wallace, then only 28 and president of the Cessna Aircraft Co. of Wichita, Kan., was asked for some financial data on his company. The bank balance, said he, was $3. Without batting an eye, persuasive President Wallace explained that he had a good line of credit, landed a $6,800,000 contract for 640 R.C.A.F. Cranes (modified Cessna...
...committee's report forced him to hurry to Dwight Eisenhower and hand in his resignation as Republican national chairman. Then he dropped from public view. Last week he was back in the news: the Manhattan investment firm of Lehman Bros, announced that it had hired Kansan Roberts as a "consultant." His job: winning friends and influencing people for Lehman Bros, in the Midwest...
...California, at the Compton Relays, Kansan Wes Santee announced that he was about to run a 4:00.3 mile. Santee's feat was almost as big as his boast. Racing in a cold wind, he was clocked in 4:00.6, an American record, second only to English Roger Bannister's historic...
...Action. The Congressman plans to run this year on an anti-Administration platform, although he is not yet sure that he would be wise to attack the President personally. Says he: "You can cuss Eisenhower, and people get sore. You can say the Administration stinks, and they cheer." The Kansan voted only about 35% pro-Eisenhower last year, and his showing this year will be about the same. For a while, he planned to vote for the St. Lawrence Seaway. Said he: "It won't make five votes difference in my district whether I vote for or against...