Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old graduate of Annapolis began a tour of duty as a gunboat ensign in China during the Sun Yat-sen Revolution. Last week, 73, and seamed and toughened by the years, Retired Admiral Alan G. Kirk returned to duty in Asia as U.S. Ambassador to Nationalist China. A World War II hero who led invasion fleets against Sicily and Normandy, Kirk also proved himself an able diplomat as Ambassador to Moscow from 1949 to 1952. His selection for the post in Taipei ended a long search for a man who was respected by Administration officials, by outspoken supporters...
...Said Kirk as he presented his credentials to Chiang: "My purpose and actions will mirror the will of the American people, of Congress and of my President . . . that neither friends nor enemy shall have any doubt of my Government's determination to honor its treaty commitment to the Republic of China...
Like Ride the High Country, Lonely Are the Brave is about a Westerner whom civilization has made an anachronism. The film is a western in spirit and setting but not in theme. Kirk Douglas plays a weatherbeaten cowpoke with mighty few cows left to poke. He is a loner, a maverick with a fence complex: he sees fences everywhere and hates them always. When he finds that an old pal is behind one-in jail-Douglas gets drunk, tangles with a barroom psycho, and manages to be thrown into the same hoosegow. He proposes to hacksaw some time...
...gain in glamour upon being transferred to film. This time Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman, an ever-lovin' couple from Terre Haute, Ind., are off to France with their three typical kids: a sweet plump daughter (Deborah Walley) with steely morals, an engagingly nutty teen-age son (Tommy Kirk), and another boy (Kevin Corcoran), 12, whose freckled wit comes forth in lines like ''I know who Napoleon was. He was the guy that had the same trouble with the English that Custer had with the Indians...
...advisory board took defeat gracefully. With a nice impartiality, Columbia's President Grayson Kirk voted for the Swanberg book in his capacity as an advisory board member, then voted against it as a trustee. "I don't see why the trustees should be a rubber stamp," said Board Member-and Atlanta Constitution Publisher-Ralph McGill...