Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diplomat from Texas Sir: In your Sept. 26 issue you mention "State's Assistant Secretary Jack Hickerson." This name, among our diplomatic representatives, has never caught my eye before. Thirty years ago I "lost" a schoolmate at University of Texas who said he was going into diplomacy. His name was Jack (John D.) Hickerson . . . We worked our way through school delivering newspapers and owning a shoeshine parlor . . . Is he our old friend...
...lead paragraph. His cover story on former Speaker of the House Joe Martin (TIME, Nov. 18, 1946) began: "About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have his old man's squat build. And in the politician's trade, which Joe Martin took up, he worked in the manner of a blacksmith - a nail here, a nail there, working most of the time close...
Needle-nosed Harry Bridges hurried to Murray's hotel suite. There, while Murray and members of his staff listened, Bridges blandly argued that he had never followed the Communist line; he had only done what seemed best for his longshoremen. C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James Carey, 37, unable to contain himself, yelled: "You're a goddam liar, Bridges." A few minutes later, Harry put on his hat and left...
...faculty leader of a "precept" meeting never quizzes, never lectures, and never takes attendance. His role is simply to ask leading questions and keep the discussion on the line, for preceptorial aims, "to clear up lectures and help students form their own opinions by informal discussion...
Though Princeton students claim that "Howard Johnson's was never like this at home," the administration is quite satisfied with the set up. Johnson's can run the dining halls at less cost to students than Princeton could, and the "family style" serving enables over 240 students to earn full board as waiters and bussboys...