Word: liaisoning
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...behavior interested the colonel; ten years before. Ali had resigned his commission, saying that "the army is rotten through and through"; since then he had held influential, behind-the-scenes jobs in the Red Tudeh Party. In 1946, Ali was liaison man in Teheran for the short-lived Azerbaijan Soviet republic. Knowing all this, Colonel Sepahpur was suddenly curious to know the contents of Ali's worn suitcase. The colonel grabbed and hefted it. "This suitcase seems very heavy for a sick man to carry," the colonel grunted...
...pilots, and has blossomed into the largest U.S. commercial light-plane manufacturer.* Its total assets are more than $21 million, and 1953 sales topped $43 million. The company has three plants (all paid for), 4,000 employees and a booming military business (backlog: $43.4 million), making everything from light liaison planes to tails for Boeing's B-47 jet bomber...
...Francisco, the local Exchange Club two years ago initiated a Shanghai-born, Stanford-trained engineering executive: Robert U. M. Ting, 35. The Stockton chapter took in Richard Wong, 40, a San Francisco-born gift-shop operator, after hearing a speech on his wartime service as a U.S. Army liaison officer with the Chinese Nationalists. Both were popular; Wong served for a year as president of the Stockton Exchange Club. But when national headquarters in Toledo heard about Ting and Wong, it demanded their expulsion. Reason: Exchange's charter limits membership to "male, white business and professional...
...three ex-publishers, only William A. H. Birnie of Woman's Home Companion has a solid new job, will stay on as vice president and liaison man between Smith and his staffers. Edward Anthony of Collier's, who has been with the company 30 years, will remain a vice president but "without present duties." He will take a six-month vacation, then report back to Editor Smith for "possible reassignment." American Magazine's John W. McPherrin has been "relieved as publisher" and Smith has not yet made up his mind about another...
Staff Officer. Ely waited eleven years for his promotion to captain. In World War II, stayed on with the Vichy government after the 1940 surrender, but later joined the Resistance. Served as liaison officer between the French National London, crossing the channel on numerous occasions with information on German military movements; he landed on the Normandy beaches a few weeks before D-day and later joined the Allied army as a Maquis colonel. Won a second Croix de guerre, with two more citations for bravery, and suffered a third wound that cost him the use of his right...