Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomats in almost every major capital of the free world could sympathize with Jock Whitney's predicament. Reason: foreign antagonism to the U.S. Secretary of State, long serious but diffuse, is becoming more and more a concentrated and measurable factor in world affairs. "Damned Dulles!" swore an Indian lawyer in Calcutta last week. "He is responsible for the tensions of the world! He is not allowing the Americans to come to terms with the Russians!" Added a high French Cabinet minister in Paris: "This man thinks like a theologian. Eisenhower is the mystic. Dulles is the theologian...
...commander of the Eighth Bomber Command in World War II; onetime Assistant Secretary of the Army Karl R. Bendetsen; President Detlev W. Bronk of the National Academy of Sciences; former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean; Physicist James B. Fisk of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; Investment Banker Bradley Gaylord; Lawyer Roswell L. Gilpatric, former Under Secretary of the Air Force; Investment Banker Townsend W. Hoopes; Johns Hopkins Administrative Officer Ellis A. Johnson; Harvardman Henry A. Kissinger, author of Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (TIME, Aug. 26); Colonel George A. Lincoln, West Point social scientist; Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief...
...general blanket boycott of Roman Catholic candidates for public office seems unwise and unfair." So says Paul Blanshard, the lawyer-author who almost a decade ago-in his book American Freedom and Catholic Power-sweepingly attacked Catholic influence in the U.S. But to his plea for fairness. Blanshard added some major qualifications. Voters, he suggested (in a revision of his book to be published in March), should ask three questions of any Catholic candidate for the presidency...
...became a nationally bylined Hearst exposé specialist. A special investigator for the late Senator McCarthy, Rushmore testified before House committees as an "expert witness" on Communism, earned the Wisconsin Senator's praise as "one of our outstanding Americans at this time." After a much-publicized feud with Lawyer Roy Cohn, Pundit George Sokolsky and other pro-Joes, Rushmore was fired by the Hearst press "for economy reasons," signed on with Confidential, resigned as editor before testifying against Confidential in the Hollywood libel trials (TIME, Aug. 26), before his death was debt-haunted, hopefully trying for an assignment from...
...sold to the movies before publication, and 4) optioned by a Broadway producer. The payoff in this case goes to John D. Voelker, 54, a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Using the pseudonym of Robert Traver, he writes out of 23 years' experience as a trial lawyer and county prosecutor in Ishpeming (pop. 9,400), a mining center set amid the rocks, swamps and forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula...