Word: l
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work with not a mention of his wife's illness, then spend the evening at the hospital with her before taking a long walk home, as he put it, "to become healthfully fatigued and then to sleep." In October 1956 Jean Holloway died. Their son, Commander James L. Holloway III, Annapolis '42, is now commanding a jet squadron aboard the attack carrier Essex in the Sixth Fleet off Lebanon...
...public eye, Arkansas' John L. (for Little) McClellan is a cold-eyed, stone-voiced, racket-busting U.S. Senator. But his few close friends know him for a sensitive, compassionate man who keeps his feelings hidden deep because they have been so sorely tested by sorrow. McClellan's mother died bearing him; his first wife died after they were unhappily divorced; his second wife died in 1935 of spinal meningitis. Son Max, by the first marriage, also died of meningitis while serving with the Army in North Africa in 1943. And in 1949, three days after Max was reburied...
Last week John McClellan returned routinely to his office from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Administrative Assistant Ralph L. Matthews was on the telephone talking long distance to Arkansas state police. After hanging up, Matthews led McClellan into the Senates private office. Said he: "This is the hardest thing I ever had to do, Senator, [pause] Jimmy is dead." McClellan blinked. "You mean my Jimmy?" Matthews nodded, filled in details. Onetime Army Pilot Jimmy McClellan, 30, a proficient light-plane flyer, was taking an examination for a multi-engine pilot's license, had at his CAA examiner...
Finally, Mike has been immobilized by the menace of E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, elected Democratic delegate to Congress for seven terms and widely regarded in Alaska as politically invincible. Bartlett was openly after the Stepovich scalp, and even while announcing for the U.S. Senate, vowed to change his mind the moment Mike declared for Governor. Under pressure of cooler heads, Bartlett reconsidered, reaffirmed his senatorial candidacy "without conditions of any kind...
...BATON FOR THE CONDUCTOR (219 pp.)-T. L W. Hubbard-Houghfon Mifflin ($3). ] "You see," the young man told the psychiatrist, "[my uncle] began as Sir Henry Wood. Then he passed through a Beecham phase, a Boult phase and a Sargent phase . . . After that [he] began adding new tricks with each conductor he studied...