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To execute the new policy, the Twelfth Fleet got a new boss: Richard Lansing Conolly, upped from vice admiral to admiral. Stocky, straight-shooting "Close-in" Conolly knew the shores of Tripoli and Italy from wartime command of amphibious forces. From 1946 administrative duty in Washington and current service at...
At Paris, too, Secretary Daniels saw the beginnings of the "sabotaging [of] world peace" by Wilson's opponents. Intensely loyal to his old chief ("the easiest man to comprehend . . . utterly frank and genuine"), he bowls over Wilson's opponents and disaffected friends one by one, from Henry Cabot...
Lansing Foxcroft Robinson
In Siberia, Commissar "Mike" Kalugin ("strictly Tammany" said another U.S. correspondent) walked down a factory assembly line "talking to the workers, a wave of the hand to this one, a pat on the back for that - a ward-boss patrolling his precinct." But to Reporter White's Kansan eyes...
The animal behind the fence at the Lansing (Mich.) zoo was an ancient beast with an eye like an undertaker's doorknob, but there was point-free meat all over him. Ed Butters, who had gone over to Lansing from his farm at Coldwater, had read all about buffalo...