Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While we were assembling the material on Giuliano, a second letter ar rived requesting the same information. It was from Leon R. Sinclair Jr. who, it turned out, was the attorney for the defense in the case. We sent the opposing attorneys tearsheets of TIME and LIFE stories on the subject and additional news from our morgue file on Giuliano, and, to satisfy our curiosity, asked our Hart ford string correspondent to find out what was going on at Norfolk Center School...
...Trustee. A second choice but a first-rate man, Gordon Gray is an heir to part of the ripe, golden R. J. Reynolds tobacco (Camels) fortune. His father put young Gordon to work in the leaf houses and at the cigarette machines, but Gordon didn't like the tobacco business. At the University of North Carolina he was No. 1 in his class, and president of Phi Beta Kappa. At Yale he was an editor of the Law Journal. After a few years of practice as a lawyer in New York and Winston-Salem, he headed a group which...
...Frankfurt last week came the kind of story that more & more headlines are made of: the Army had investigated TVA Chairman Gordon R. Clapp, and found him unfit for a temporary occupation job in Germany. The officer who leaked the story would not let his name be used, but he was willing to make a few large remarks under the protection of anonymity. ". . . Why would he be permitted to remain as head of TVA?" he asked. "I think it is a terrible situation and ought to get an airing...
...considered for one, and would not be interested if he were; TVA duties take up all of his time. Next day, the Army, realizing it had been guilty of irresponsible character assassination, beat a hasty retreat. "The Army," said its new Secretary, Gordon Gray, "has never investigated Mr. Gordon R. Clapp and has absolutely no derogatory information about him which would warrant his not being employed by the Army for security or any other reason ... I most sincerely regret any aspersions upon the character or loyalty or integrity or ability of this outstanding citizen...
Professor L. R. Cleveland is more interested in the sex life of smaller animals, minute protozoa that live in the bodies of insects. Usually the amoebae reproduce by splitting in half, but inside insects they find a chemical that changes them into males and females...