Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frederick Vanderbilt Field, the maverick millionaire who served as a U.S. Communist Party angel for years, was secretary of the Civil Rights Congress bail fund that posted bond for a long procession of U.S. party leaders on trial for Smith Act violations...
Passed over for promotion to brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve because stern-minded Senator Margaret Chase Smith said he had not spent enough time actively being a colonel (TIME, Sept. 2), shambling Cinema Good Guy Jimmy Stewart last week got a star anyway, and with it a title requiring no active duty at all: honorary sheriff of Elko County, Nev. (14,000 people, twelve crap joints...
Author Eliot, 38, is an art editor with deep roots and long training in his field. A child dauber, he was ten when he first became aware of others' paintings. Borrowing his father's bicycle one day to visit a cubist exhibition at Smith College, where his father is a professor, he promised to be back in two hours, so father could ride to his English class. When Professor Eliot stormed into the gallery five hours later, his son was staring at an early Picasso "with the gaze small boys usually reserve for double banana splits. A fatherly...
Maine's U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith is in close touch with U.S. military reserve programs. Commissioned after World War II, she is now, at 59, a lieutenant colonel in the WAF reserve. Her administrative assistant, William C. Lewis Jr., is an ardent Air Force reservist ("about 90 days' " training in the past twelve months). He was passed over for promotion from colonel to brigadier general last spring-despite the Senator's persistent efforts on his behalf. Last week, when the promotions of eight other reserve colonels came up for approval by the Senate Armed Services Committee...
Lieut. Colonel Smith admired Colonel Stewart's fine World War II combat record* and his ability as an actor. But why, with 1,900 other colonels up for promotion, was Stewart advanced to one-star rank? Colonel Stewart, though he flies his own Cessna 310, had put in only 39 days of reserve training since World War II; yet he had been assigned to a key M-day billet as deputy director of operations at SAC headquarters. Lieut. General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, Air Force personnel boss, disagreed with the Senator. "Stewart has made a great contribution...