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...that Bunker would be free to concentrate on the broad aspects of the war, the President appointed an old Texas friend as Deputy Ambassador. Dallas-born Eugene Murphy Locke, 49, who since last June has been U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, will take over Bill Porter's role as meeter, greeter and all-purpose paper hanger in the Saigon embassy. A blond, burly classmate (Yale Law, '40) of such notables as Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Potter Stewart and Poverty Potentate Sargent Shriver, Locke was a Navy gunnery officer during World War II; his ship landed a Marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: QUARTET AT THE TOP | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...Meeter & Greater. Mikoyan's succes sor as Soviet chief of state is Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, 62, who rose to power as a protege of Nikita Khrushchev's. A hard-bitten Ukrainian with little experience in foreign affairs, Podgorny's main claim to power in the hierarchy was his control of party cadres-a job he may well lose as a result of his "elevation." The Soviet presidency is largely ceremonial, and without strong party posts its occupant is little more than a meeter and greeter. Podgorny, in short, seemed to have been kicked upstairs, with one nagging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Kicks, Upstairs & Down | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...people. Yet he has written some of the most authentic Americana of his time, and numbers among his friends prizefighters, Chicago gunmen, waitresses, and a gambler who is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Full of bubble and bounce, he has the ready grin of the seasoned meeter-of-people. He puts on no airs, and has an immense interest in human beings, young and old, whom he treats with fatherly didacticism ("I should scold you very severely," he told a girl of a few minutes' acquaintance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: An Obliging Man | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Married. Dale Carnegie, 55, famed meeter and influencer; and Dorothy Price Vanderpool, 32, Carnegie Institute secretary; both for the second time; on the eighth publication anniversary of his classic How To Win Friends & Influence People; in Tulsa. Said he: "Even after I wrote that book, it took me eight years to influence a woman to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 13, 1944 | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter, We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wanderlustre | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

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