Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salute to your staff for its delightful coverage of press capriciousness during Mr. K.'s visit. Good Lord, this is the profession I'm striving to enter...
...your Oct. 5 article on Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, you report: "Once while designing Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Baker House in 1947, he turned out the whole staff at midnight, for three hours paced the office floor without a word, thinking furiously, finally dashed off the drawings...
...staff is aware of subtle changes in manner that also belie his age. At 69, Dwight Eisenhower is less set in his ways than he was when he first took the Presidential oath of office at 62. He has become at once more pragmatic and more flexible and adaptable-even foxy in his skillful handling of Congress and his new-found warm relations with the press. He has become more and more at ease in office, while making it clear that he would be more than happy...
...surprised him with a medley of tunes: Happy Birthday, The Yellow Rose of Texas, and one of his favorites, Army Blue ("We'll bid farewell to Kaydet Gray, and don the Army Blue . . .")-The White House employees had filled a huge vase with 69 roses, and the executive staff presented him with four matched bridge chairs for the Gettysburg farm. The famed Eisenhower grin showed that the President felt quite at home in Washington...
...fast start. Outdistancing even his West Point rivals, he made his first big mark in the Philippines (1913-16). His ability to plan and execute maneuvers struck Commanding General J. Franklin Bell as something barely short of miraculous. "Keep your eyes on George Marshall," Bell told his staff. "He is the greatest military genius of America since Stonewall Jackson...