Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of American History at Harvard, has been promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral (retired) in the United States Navy, it was announced recently...
...voice that has lifted him, almost as smoothly as it clears high C, from Philadelphia's Little Italy to a unique spot in U.S. show busi ness. For natural power and quality, though not for training or polish, it is a voice that many experts rank with those of the titans of opera. The voice sells Lanza, but Lanza, also sells the voice with curly-haired good looks and a paradoxical combination of beaming boyishness and hairy-chested animal magnetism. He is at once the delight of bobby-soxers, house wives and ordinary song lovers, and the despair...
...young prince's slight frame was fitted out in olive drab and hung with the ritual cordon and sword. In one swoop, he was promoted from civilian to lieutenant general (Belgium's highest military rank) with nothing to bolster such splendor but an uncertain salute learned in Boy Scout days, still shaky despite much practice before a mirror...
...Mosses. Clubb is another old China hand with a reputation as a member of the opposite camp who stoutly supported Chiang. As a Class One foreign service officer, he outranks Davies (only career ministers rank higher). Born and educated in Minnesota, Diplomat Clubb speaks both Chinese and Russian, served two years as consul general in Vladivostok. He was consul general in Peking when the Communists took over in 1950, was ejected when they seized the consulate over official U.S. protests. The charges against him apparently come from old hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, in which ex-Communist...
Ever since then, Yugoslavia and Canada have been getting along better & better. The two countries have just elevated their respective envoys to the rank of ambassador (for Canada, J. Scott Macdonald will be shifted from the embassy in Rio de Janeiro to the new one in Belgrade; for Yugoslavia, Minister Rade Pribicevic in Ottawa has been prompted). To show its good will, Canada has even sent a gift of 125 tons of codfish to Titoland...