Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand for the interservice farewell to Generals Weyland and Partridge at Boiling: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James S. Russell, Army Chief of Staff General Lyman Lemnitzer...
...Dodgers have men to match. Towering (6 ft. 6 in.. 205 Ibs.) Don Drysdale (13-6) is the ace of a slick young pitching staff, and Third Baseman Jim Gilliam (.318) always seems to be on base. But the biggest man of all in the Dodger infield is that old pro-and beloved Brook-lynite-First Baseman Gil Hodges, 35, who can still field like a vacuum cleaner and at .293 put the ball game away with his bat. Last week in the first game against the Giants, he slammed a two-run homer; in the second, he slapped...
Died. Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy, 84, F.D.R.'s wartime personal chief of staff who rose through 40 years in naval rank to Chief of Naval Operations (1937-39), went to work after retirement as Ambassador to Vichy-France; of a stroke; in Washington. Shaggy-browed, coolly logical Bill Leahy proved his diplomacy by gaining the confidence of old Marshal Petain, Nazi-approved boss of conquered France, and helping to neutralize France. Recalled to the U.S. in 1942, Old Sea Dog Leahy stayed close to F.D.R.. advised him without unduly influencing him (he took exception to some...
...newest shamus in the club collects his pay as suavely as any, is just as deadly with rod and dukes. This time he and his blueblooded staff (Joanna Barnes) pull a semilegal caper, conning...
...Frol Kozlov (whom he hosted in Manhattan), Winston smoothed the way for getting the U.S. show into the U.S.S.R. during seven self-paid trips to Moscow. Acting in an advisory capacity, he backed up the hard work of Exhibition General Manager Harold C. Mc-Clellan and his fulltime staff. The Soviet government respects Winston's business know-how, has invited him to Moscow three times for counsel on home building. Unlike Fellow Capitalist Cyrus Eaton (TIME, Jan. 19), Winston caustically criticizes Communism and all its works. Says he: "I tell the Russians that I'm a capitalist...