Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardworking, second-level Washington bureaucrat than the traditional Cabinet member. His relations with the White House are efficiently firm-he confers with the President a couple of times a week, usually lunches with him on Mondays. But the Secretary of Agriculture has never plunged into the panoply of Cabinet rank, nor has he been taken into the circle of cronies surrounding Harry Truman-"I don't play in the poker club," he says...
...Atlantic Council set up a new, permanent, overall executive committee, to be headed-by tacit consent among the Allies-by an American. (Suggested for the job: onetime Under Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett, ECA Troubleshooter Averell Harriman, General Ike Eisenhower.) The members of the new committee-their diplomatic rank will be that of deputies to the Foreign Ministers-will run the cold war and integrate the West's defenses for a hot war if it should come...
...dallied in the bars and casinos, chain-smoked cheap Gauloise cigarettes, treated hangers-on to champagne and caviar, played roulette for 10,000-franc chips ("His Majesty's losses," remarked a croupier, "befitted his rank"), sometimes conducted jazz bands, sent his secretary to open negotiations with the many women who caught his eye. ("My grandfather had 125 wives and 300 children," Bao Dai once remarked to a journalist. "I have a few mistresses. What then?") He played golf capably and bridge like a master. A crack shot with rifle or revolver, he often arranged target competitions with...
Married. Princess Kazuko, 20, daughter of Emperor Hirohito, and Toshimichi Takatsukasa, 26, $20-a-month museum clerk and a cousin of the Dowager Empress Sadako; in Tokyo, after a formal ceremony in which she gave up her imperial rank and privileges (the bridegroom's family was reduced to commoner status upon adoption of the 1947 Constitution...
Adam and Evalyn (Rank; Universal-International) is a British movie cut to an old Hollywood pattern-not a very good pattern by the standards of moviemaking on either side of the Atlantic. A dashing young society gambler (Stewart Granger) promises a dying buddy to take his daughter out of an orphanage and give her a home. The girl (Jean Simmons) is an ungainly waif who takes Granger for her father. He finally sets her straight and packs her off to a Swiss finishing school, which returns her to him as a glamorous dish. She consents to marry...