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Last week the Daily Times got a new managing editor: studious, gregarious John Nicholas Popham, 47, for the past eleven years the New York Times's chief Southern correspondent. Johnny Pop-ham's appointment completed the replacement of the paper's aging top brass that was started 16 months ago when Ben Hale Golden, 47, became publisher...
Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins is "cautiously optimistic" that three good sprayings will bring the fly under control, but William L. Popham, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Pest
...nation long accustomed to the often soporific British Broadcasting Corp. Sir Kenneth, 51, was formerly director of the National Gallery, Slade professor of Fine Art at Oxford, and wartime member of the Ministry of Information. His six-man board is equally highbrow and includes ex-Teacher Margaret Popham, who does not even own a TV set ("I don't find most of the programs interesting enough...
Died. Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, 75, one of Britain's pioneer airmen, who led the disastrous 1941 defense of Malaya and Singapore against the Japanese in World War II; in Halton, England...
There had been friction between General Gordon Bennett and the British High Command. The Australian's dislike for Air Chief Marshal Sir General Robert Brooke-Popham was embarrassingly obvious. But Henry Gordon Bennett was a valuable soldier, and his supposed capture, obligingly confirmed by the Japanese, was a blow to the Allies...