Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wartime Marine pilot, Harry Truman's budget director (1946-49) and Dean Acheson's capable Under Secretary of State (1949-52). A well-to-do lawyer and businessman, he is a director of McDonnell Aircraft, which makes the Mercury space capsule, and assistant to the president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, whose driving force is Oklahoma Democrat Bob Kerr, the chairman of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee. Webb will give up interests in both firms to go to NASA, where his organizational talents are badly needed...
...invariably tries to browbeat the press, claims he once persuaded the New York World-Telegram to delete an unfavorable section from a review. Critics, with the rarest of exceptions, he denounces as uncreative "hacks." Merrick particularly professes to despise Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune (Kerr reacts, says Merrick, only when his wife Jean nudges him), John McCarten of The New Yorker (whom he banned from his last opening), Louis Kronenberger of TIME, and the New York Times's Howard Taubman-who, says Merrick grinning at his own maliciousness, "needs vocational guidance." Two weeks ago, he tried...
...Snake Has All the Lines, Kerr...
...Snake Has AH the Lines, Kerr...
...Snake Has All the Lines, Kerr...