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...Karl L. Rankin, charge d'affaires on Formosa, to be Ambassador to the Nationalist Chinese government. In Taipeh, spokesmen for Chiang Kai-shek enthusiastically welcomed the elevation of popular Diplomat Rankin as another sign of a stronger U.S. policy in the Far East...
...Karl Lott Rankin, 54, chargé d'affaires in Taipei, Formosa, to be Ambassador to Nationalist China. A seasoned diplomat (Prague, Athens, Vienna, Belgrade, Brussels, Cairo, Canton, Hong Kong and other posts), Rankin has been Ambassador to China in all but name since August 1950, when he took over for ailing Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart...
...James) LEE RANKIN, 45, Nebraska Law School product, an old admirer of New York's Governor Tom Dewey, for whom he campaigned in Nebraska as far back...
...spends as much time as possible at his New Hampshire farm, where he raises dairy and beef cattle. His six children (three sons, three daughters) have presented him with twelve grandchildren. His first wife, Beatrice Dowse, died in 1945. He was married in 1948 to Mrs. Jane Tompkins Rankin of Nashville...
...military precision, and sang eleven brief world premieres. Hardest-working musician at the festival was Conductor William Steinberg, who spent as many as twelve hours a day rehearsing and leading three orchestral programs. Visiting performers included the Juilliard, New Music and Walden String Quartets, singers Leslie Chabay and Nell Rankin and the U.S. Military Academy Band. Across the footlights were critics from as far away as California and England...