Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting men. For ten days, homely, lean-flanked Army Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley, boyish-looking Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (he is 50), and earnest, bespectacled Admiral Louis Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations, toured the Continent in Harry Truman's blue and silver plane, Independence, reviewed troops, placed wreaths, and did some top-secret chatting with leaders of the Atlantic pact nations. The visitors' chief task was to show Western Europe that they took an interest in its defense...
Last week the reorganization committee announced the appointment of a new bureau director: the Rev. Thomas J. McCarthy, 37, editor of the hard-hitting Los Angeles Catholic weekly, the Tidings, and a leader among the younger, liberal element in the church. Tall, silver-haired Father McCarthy went to Los Angeles in 1937 at his own request, just after he had been ordained in Springfield, Mass., in his home diocese. "I don't think I could have stood New England," he says now. "The forward movement is so imperceptible...
Bakers & Blacksmiths. At Oxford, Lindsay was a rosy-cheeked scholar, with a wry Scottish wit and a taste for disreputable tweeds. In lofty, oak-beamed Balliol College hall, undergraduates crowded to hear his quiet-toned discourses, and at Balliol's long, oak-topped high-table with its silver candlesticks, notables came from all over the world to dine and talk with him. But in his spare time, when his Oxford duties were done, the master was apt to vanish...
After lunch Charles Luckman gave a personal demonstration of his thesis. Eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, armed with a silver-plated shovel, he broke ground for a new $25 million soap and food products plant. Lever Bros., he said, would spend another $30 million on expansion and modernization elsewhere. That would make a total bet of $55 million that the jabber-jitterers were talking jabberwocky...
Remarried. Barney Ross, 40, onetime world's lightweight (1933-35) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion, now a Manhattan advertising man, who was awarded the Silver Star for heroism on Guadalcanal, won another battle in 1946 when he overcame an opium addiction picked up after his injuries in the Pacific; and second wife Cathy Hewlett Ross, 33, ex-showgirl who divorced him in 1946; in Del Mar, Calif...