Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think we should promote people to general officer [merely] on the basis of a good attendance record." But Senator Smith was far from satisfied. As she saw it, Stewart's promotion was clearly a case of rewarding not the colonel but the glamorous male lead in Strategic Air Command. She grimly put her foot down, and out of senatorial courtesy the Senate committee passed over Colonel James Stewart, U.S.A.F.R. Vacationing in Nevada after a two-week active-duty tour in July with a B-52 outfit in Limestone, Me., Pilot Stewart landed smoothly. Said he: "I was very honored...
...networks' highly competitive efforts to bag big names for TV portraits, CBS gets most of the major beats, e.g., Ed Murrow's interviews with Tito and Chou Enlai, Face the Nation's with Khrushchev. Last week NBC was in hot pursuit of its rival's lead. Hardly before the 121-gun salute to its liberator had stopped reverberating in Tunisia, NBC Commentator Chet Huntley had set up his lights and cameras in the tiled office of popular President Habib ("Beloved") Bourguiba. Wearing a dark Western business suit and a TV-blue shirt, greying, rock-jawed Bourguiba...
...Fred Haney kept on fielding a team. (At one time his outfield consisted of Catcher Del Crandall, Utility First Baseman Nippy Jones and Bonus Baby John DeMerit.) And somehow the Braves kept winning, put together a ten-game winning streak that knocked the St. Louis Cardinals out of the lead and broke up the fight for the flag...
...identified as Dave Jr. was not the Teamster boss's son. But Connecticut's Stamford Advocate (circ. 24,674), which originated the story, insisted that George Skakel had "solemnly confirmed" that the Becks had been at his home. Instead of killing the story, the A.P. rewrote the lead: "The Stamford Advocate said today...
...mullah in the tenets of Mohammedanism, but at 15 he was sent to school in Switzerland; now he tries to give his people the best of both worlds, only to find-like so many other men of good will in the East-that such an attempt can easily lead to tragedy. When Ghazan gets wind of the fact that the Persian army is planning once again to resettle his people, he leads them into the uplands for the summer, and they resume their way of life-shearing their sheep, weaving cloth and dazzling-colored rugs. Ghazan knows that this summer...