Word: polk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once Pegasus gets going," Chairman Rose Polk '57 said last night, "We feel sure it will pay for itself. Publishing the first issue isn't too easy, though...
Died. Don Hollenbeck, 49, scholarly-voiced CBS radio and TV news commentator (Sunday News Special) ; by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. Old Newsman Hollenbeck (the Omaha Bee-News, A.P.), was a World War II correspondent for NBC, won a special Polk memorial award for distinguished reporting as a commentator on CBS Views the News (1947-50), once got suspended for a month by ABC for remarking after a commercial (for Marlin Blades) : "The atrocity you have just heard is not a part of this program...
...senior partner of ihe 104-year-old Wall Street firm of Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (95 lawyers). John W. Davis represents A.T.&T., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, International Paper Co., et al. He did not need another client, and he already owned a tea service. Davis took the segregation case partly because an old friend, South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes, asked him to, partly as a matter of constitutional (states' rights) and social conviction ("Race is a fact, like sex"). Some of his other friends were sorry to hear...
...Alfred M. Gruenther, 42, was General McNair's left-hand man (young Brigadier General Mark Clark was his right) at the GHQ directors' group at Camp Polk. Gruenther became a lieutenant colonel during the maneuvers . . . Eisenhower says Gruenther is one of the best soldiers he has ever known-and so do dozens of other people. Gruenther is a thin, pale, frank officer who proves to be studious, well-informed and extremely well-liked . . . The knowing element in the Army is betting on the Eisenhower-Gruenther combination to swim to the top quickly...
...part of the well platform a mass of wreckage. The wells' damaged "Christmas trees" (i.e., cluster of valves topping the well pipe) kept the flames close to the platform, making the area too hot to approach. Kinley borrowed a four-man Army team from Louisiana's Camp Polk, tried to shoot off the trees with 75-mm. recoilless rifles. The tree of one well was shot off. Kinley got Pure Oil's crews to weld together a 90-ft. boom of pipe tipped with a big loop and cooled by hundreds of gallons of water pumped through...