Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into New York harbor last week steamed two Norwegian whalers, the huge, 22,000-ton Sir James Clark Ross and the smaller Thorshammer. Two weeks out of Norway, they had hardly tied up in the shadow of the skyscrapers before their crews were busily dismantling their anti-aircraft guns, hauling aboard six months' supply of food...
Gone were the old days when Press Secretary Steve Early would fetch a presidential answer to a routine question (including "what did the President eat for breakfast?"). In Steve Early's chair now was serious, sober, 59-year-old Charles Griffith Ross of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, who does not like to answer personal questions about his boss...
...Ross holds his own daily conference with reporters and provides a list of the day's appointments, bills and orders signed. Exasperated newsmen who try to pry out White House copy get the stock Ross answer: "I don't know." For this uncooperative attitude on "personality stuff" about the President newsmen blame Charlie Ross, not his boss...
...First Yank is Major Steve Ross (Tom Neal), an Army pilot who was raised in Japan and speaks the language without a trace of an accent. He is therefore drafted by Washington to rescue an American scientist (Marc Cramer) from a Jap prison camp. The captive scientist appears to be the only man who knows the whole formula for completing the atom bomb. The Major forthwith undergoes some heavy-handed plastic surgery to give him buck teeth, slant eyes and a puffy face which make him look less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover...
King of the Cocos. In London, the youngest, strangest royal D.P. of all packed his own bags. He was John Clunies-Ross V, 19, King of the Cocos Islands (TIME, June 11). Ross V has the lean, long countenance of his Scottish seafaring ancestors. His brother favors their Malayan grandmother (a royal Sulu princess in her own right). Their sister manages to look like both of them...