Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Hutchins created a new office of fund vice president and named the man to fill it: Public Relations Man W. H. ("Ping") Ferry, 43, son of Packard Motor Car Co.'s onetime Board Chairman Hugh J. Ferry. A former teacher and newsman, Ferry worked with the International Labor Organization, OPA and the C.I.O.-P.A.C. during New Deal days. In 1945 he joined Manhattan's public relations firm of Earl Newsom & Co., where his duties included writing speeches for Henry Ford II and doing "think work" for the Ford Foundation. He is, says Hutchins, "the kind...
...Americans sat down and dealt with the Reds directly. The small U.S. party was headed by U. Alexis Johnson, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (and former State Department adviser on the Korean war); the Chinese group was run by Wang Ping-nan, secretary general of the Peking delegation at Geneva...
...addition to the library, Bundy also announced other changes, in Dudley. The small dining hall will be enlarged during the summer, the ping pong room will be improved, and a new game room in the Apley Court basement will be built...
...then asked how I could get in touch with my old acquaintance Wan Ping-nan, the secretary of the Chinese delegation. Said Chang: "We have a liaison office at the Beau Rivage. A certain Mr. Kuo is in charge...
Says Beal: "I made it a point to visit the Beau Rivage Hotel as soon as possible. But there the certain Mr. Kuo said, 'I don't think I can find Wan Ping...