Word: seaton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obvious concerns was the U.S. Supreme Court. But none of the Justices now living in Washington has children of school age. Last year Vice President Nixon's two daughters attended the Horace Mann School, which had one Negro. Among their schoolmates were the son of Interior Secretary Frederick Seaton and the children of Senators Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and Thomas Kuchel of California...
...Otherwise he "roughed it" in the Rockies and even managed to upset the angling fraternity by taking 40 trout without a licence in a single day. He left natural resources under the infrequently benevolent hands of McKay who eventually resigned to run for the Senate against Wayne Morse. Fred Seaton replaced McKay, and continued his predecessor's policies...
Died. Walter de la Mare, 83, famed myth-and-mystic British poet (The Listeners), novelist (Memoirs of a Midget) and short-story writer (Seaton's Aunt), whose intensely personal vision earned him membership in the Order of Merit, an honor limited to 24 living persons; of a coronary thrombosis; in Twickenham, England. A delicate, meticulous stylist, shy, ruddy-faced De la Mare was best loved for his children's tales and verses-some as chilling and profound as a child's daydream, others as sensitive and whimsical as the man himself. (Said Poet W.H. Auden: "A child...
Based on a novel by Lucy Herndon Crockett and filmed in the Virgin Islands, The Proud and Profane was produced and directed by the talented team of William Perlberg and George Seaton (Miracle on 34th Street, The Country Girl) and has a strong supporting cast headed by talented Thelma Ritter. None of them could save...
Through fellow Nebraskan General Alfred Gruenther, Seaton met Dwight Eisenhower in France in 1952, later became a key strategist on Ike's campaign team. In September 1953 the President called Seaton to Washington to straighten out Defense Secretary Charles Wilson's troubles with Congress and the press. As Assistant Secretary of Defense for legislative and public affairs, he played an effective behind-the-scenes role in the Army's 1954 wrestle with Joe McCarthy. Last year he was drafted into the White House as a key presidential assistant, became a troubleshooter and adviser, not only on politics...