Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Byrnes had wanted to quit a long time ago. For months he had been fighting off a jangling weariness. But there was never a time to rest in Moscow, London, Washington or New York. Last April, after a physical checkup, he got a stern warning: "Slow down-or else!" But asking a U.S. Secretary of State to slow down in 1946 was like asking a canoeist to pause amidst rapids. He decided to make a clean break instead, and sent his resignation to. the President...
That was that, but the change was not to be announced for some days. In Nanking General Marshall had broken the news to Chiang (see FOREIGN NEWS). But only a very few in Washington had known that Jimmy Byrnes would quit; most assumed that he would go to Moscow in March. Then the New York Times's "Scotty" Reston got a hot tip and gave a strong hint (see PRESS). Soon a startled world learned that the U.S. had changed its Secretary of State for the fourth time in 26 months...
Beginning his new strip, Caniff was confident and cool: "It's almost a mathematical equation," he said. "If I don't know my trade by now, I'd better quit...
Forty Pounds On. In 1937, two years before he quit tennis, California-born Ellsworth Vines took his first golf lesson. He had two handicaps from tennis: a pair of glasses, the result of eye-strain in night matches; and an overdeveloped right wrist that once stroked the most devastating forehand in tennis. By 1942, he had chopped his game from the 90s to the 70s and become golf pro at the Southern California Golf & Country Club. When he became a fulltime playing pro last year, his tee shots were usually long & straight, his irons still wobbly. But on the greens...
...looking figure of Manhattan's writing set; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With George Jean Nathan, James Branch Cabell, Eugene O'Neill, he founded in 1932 the "literary newspaper" The American Spectator, for three years published the works of the nation's best writers, suddenly quit when he and his fellow editors "tired...