Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under Secretary of State, James Edwin Webb, at 42 is a swiftly rising star in the Administration. A broad-shouldered and affable North Carolinian, Webb is a lawyer and a former vice president of the Sperry Corp. A pilot, he was a wartime Stateside major in Marine aviation. A protégé of North Carolina's late O. Max Gardner, Webb became Truman's Director of the Budget in July 1946. There he made many friends, no enemies. When a reporter asked the President what Webb's qualifications were for Under Secretary of State, Harry Truman...
...Five-Star Treatment. Whatever Hubert Humphrey still had to learn about becoming a Senator, there was not much for him still to learn about politicking. He briefed his new eight-man staff: every letter was to be answered, every request followed up, a card-index system established to show what action was taken. Minnesota correspondence was to get priority (in one week he got 2,000 letters, tops for any freshman). He had a list prepared of big Minnesota names, who were to get the five-star treatment...
...Chicago publicity man named James Mangan announced that he had founded a new "sovereign power . . . known as the nation of Celestial Space." He presented a fancy document to the Cook County Recorder, staking out a claim to "space in all directions . . . specifically exempting . . . every celestial body, whether star, planet, satellite or comet . . ." Then he debated selling chunks of space as big as the earth, for a dollar each...
...Congress. At first his office spoke vaguely of "auto trouble." Friends injudiciously added that he had been doing the Seattle nightspots with lush, blonde June Millarde (known professionally in Hollywood pin-up circles as Toni Seven). Heiress to an estimated $3,000,000, Toni is the daughter of Silent Star June Caprice and Director Harry Millarde. While the tabloids were still eating up every new rumor, the Senator appeared in Washington. Had he and Toni been married in the desert? Said he: "Completely absurd." In Hidden Valley, Calif., Toni said: "I feel very bad about the whole thing . . . I love...
...process. By giving a frank-and unquotable-explanation of the background behind official actions, bigwigs had often helped reporters do a better job of interpreting the news. But the handy phrase has long since gotten out of hand. Last week Managing Editor Norman E. Isaacs of the St. Louis Star-Times charged that editors who persisted in kowtowing to "off the record" were "frequently guilty of suppressing news...