Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis Johnson, the man who had never before known a major setback, poured out his hurt and humiliation in a note of resignation to his "Dear Mr. President." Then he went back to Clarksburg to brood on man's infidelity to man-and to commit his thoughts to paper in a book which still rests in the Johnson safe-deposit...
William Helis, known in New Orleans as "The Golden Greek." Beginning as an immigrant dishwasher in New York, Helis hit it rich in California and Louisiana oil. Helis was the biggest money backer of Earl Long. In 1939 he was involved in the "hot-oil" scandals with New Orleans' former mayor and Huey Long henchman, Robert Sidney Maestri. Helis is a one-man lobby for Greece (he is a supporter of the royalist faction), once owned drilling concessions for the entire nation. He keeps a racing stable in New Jersey. During the war, he turned his yacht over...
Shanghai, which had known little quiet in its turbulent history, fell to the Communists one sunny morning last week- quietly...
M.R.P. strength has been declining; a deal with the Gaullists might prove to be M.R.P.'s only means of surviving the next elections (to be held within two years). Bidault, who served in De Gaulle's cabinet and has high personal regard for him, was known to be less opposed to such a deal than other M.R.P. leaders, including Teitgen...
...have ever heard of professionally anonymous City Press. Reason: it is a kind of trade secret of the loudly competitive newspapers, which share its cost and its news. But City Press is probably the most successful school of practical journalism in the U.S., and its alumni are as well-known as the academy is obscure...