Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With less than two weeks left to bone up for the election, U.S. citizens were not exactly rushing to buy books about the candidates. Stanley Walker's new campaign biography, Dewey; an American of This Century (Whittlesey House; $2.50), was no more a best seller than the year's two Roosevelt books: Compton Mackenzie's Mr. Roosevelt, Noel F. Busch's What Manner...
...Stanley Wright and Dave Teeter were up state this weekend. They were going full guns with the sweet young things' chief specialist father, but even with the aid of their rank they couldn't get the car. So, on foot, they made the Coral Gables with mutterings about the effectiveness of discipline. No more flashing rank for these...
...Black, 58, met his sons (Lieut. Sterling and Corporal Hugo L. Jr.) at Miami Beach, sharpened up his tennis in matches with Donald Budge's brother Lloyd. William Orville Douglas, 45, went, as usual, to his hideaway Lostine River ranch in northeast Washington, climbed mountains and hooked trout. Stanley Reed, 59, whacked repainted golf balls for exercise; Wiley Rutledge, 50, camped out in the White River country of western Colorado. Bob Jackson, 52, rode horseback at his McLean, Va. estate; Frank Murphy, 54, lolled on a Michigan beach; Felix Frankfurter, 61, visited in Connecticut...
...Dumb Cop. In Portland, Ore., police put out a fire under a parked automobile, considerably annoying George Harper, its owner, who complained that he always left the pilot light burning in his Stanley Steamer...
...diplomatic shuffles, the White House announced the appointments of nine U.S. envoys, five of them seasoned career men. To the Polish Government in London went suave Careerist Arthur Bliss Lane, 50, an appointment which should put Polish-Americans in a good election-year mood. To The Netherlands went solemn Stanley Hornbeck, 61, onetime chief of the State Department's Far Eastern division; to Bolivia, Walter Thurston, 48, of Colorado; to Colombia, John Cooper Wiley, U.S. Minister to Latvia and Estonia until 1941; to El Salvador, John F. Simmons, 52, who began as a U.S. consular clerk...