Word: roster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liaison Man. In the roster of Soviet eminence, Bulganin until recently took a back seat, not only to the party bosses, Khrushchev and Malenkov and Kaganovich, and the government officials, Molotov and Mikoyan, but even, in some respects, to his subordinate: Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Bulganin learned self-effacement in the hardest school of all: Joseph Stalin's, where self-effacement was often the price of survival. On the dictator's 70th birthday, every member of the Politburo was required to compose a paean of praise for the Soviet newspapers. Khrushchev contrived to include...
...Court Champion Gil Shea ''who was ousted two rounds later by Italy's up-and-coming Star Nick Pietrangeli); U.S. Davis Cupper Ham Richardson, defeated in the first round by Sweden's Sven Davidson. At week's end, midway in the tournament, the quarterfinals roster stood: the U.S.'s top-seeded Tony Trabert, Australia's maturing (20) Boy Wonders Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, Wimbledon's paunchy but powerful Defending Champion Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt, Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, Sweden's Davidson, Italy's high-touted Pietrangeli...
WHEN Sir Anthony Eden takes over as Prime Minister of Great Britain, he will be, at 57, one of the youngest of the world's political leaders, but by no means a youngster in the long roster of British Prime Ministers.* Anthony Eden has aged considerably since his gall bladder operations in 1953, but despite his silver-grey hair, tired eyes and furrowed forehead, he still wears a boyish air. Yet, when Dwight Eisenhower was an army major in the Philippines, Khrushchev an obscure bureaucrat, Nehru a revolutionary in jail and Mao Tse-tung an outlaw in the Shensi...
...long string of friends . . . traveling to their graves by the alcoholic highway: Jack London, George Sterling, Sinclair Lewis, Edna Millay, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Scott Fitzgerald, Hart Crane, John Barrymore, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Dylan Thomas...
...matched only by the scramble for talent. The fields are so new and complicated that there is only a small number of top men. This week the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp., which has more than $1 billion in Government contracts for bombers, missiles, etc., garnered an imposing roster of talent...