Word: stints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.O.P. speculation about Summerfield's successor was beamed toward one man: lean, relaxed Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 48. Roberts was working on his family's weekly Oskaloosa Independent (circ. 1,400) when he plunged into Republican politics in 1936. With time out for a World War II stint in the Marines, he served the Kansas G.O.P. and its state administrations in various jobs until 1950, when he got out of active politics to start his own public-relations firm in Topeka and Holton. Late last year Kansas Senator Frank Carlson brought him in as director of the national...
...Reichenau, publisher of a money-losing monthly, got the cash for his "old soldiers' private soiree," and by the Moscow echoes in his speech, Allied Intelligence agents questioned him last week. Reichenau's explanation: he had salted away $1,000 a month during his 20-year stint as a military adviser to the Chinese Nationalists. Protested Von Reichenau: "It is absurd to accuse an aristocrat of cooperating with Communists . . . As others find pleasure in theater and dancing . . . I am a collector of soldiers' opinions...
...foreman in a Ford tool & die room. Fired again in 1932, he went off on a three-year bicycle trip through Europe and parts of Asia with his brother Victor, now U.A.W. representative in Europe. The Reuthers supplemented their funds with occasional jobs, among them a one-year stint in Russia's Gorky auto plant...
...quit Colgate to take a job as a construction laborer, did a stint as a blacksmith's apprentice before joining his father's furniture company. In 1933, when the furniture industry's average loss was 14? on the sales dollar, Sligh decided to start a company of his own. With a partner and $14,000 capital, he astounded the industry by turning a profit the first year, has never since recorded a loss. Two months ago, when the A.F.L. Upholsterers International Union tried to organize one of his companies, he called a meeting of employees, and turned...
...columnist with "Sergeant Cannon Says," a column of eloquent, olive-drab barracks talk written for the now defunct PM while he was a G.I. Later, Stars & Stripes made him a combat correspondent in Europe. At war's end he joined the Post to write sports, did a stint as a war correspondent in Korea. When he saw the Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins at the front, Cannon remarked: "Meeting Maggie at the front for the first time is like meeting Brenda Frazier in the gents room at Grand Central Station...