Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman did not have to look far for someone to succeed W. Stuart Symington as Secretary of the Air Force. The logical choice was the man who headed the President's Air Policy Commission in 1947 and produced the report recommending a 70-group Air Force. Last week the President nominated bald, sharp-eyed Thomas Knight Finletter for the job. Never a flyer himself, 56-year-old Tom Finletter comes from a socialite Philadelphia family and is a Manhattan corporation lawyer, a United World Federalist, an avid student of history and an expert in international economics. When appointed...
...City, dropped in casually to see the governor. At the big Kansas City dinner for Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle, Binaggio planted himself right in front of the President of the U.S., sat cheek by jowl with such notables as Attorney General Howard McGrath and Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington...
First, handsome, able W. Stuart Symington, 48, left his job as the nation's first Secretary of the Air Force to become chairman of the National Security Resources Board. On the record, the NSRB, established three years ago, wasn't much of a job-but it should be. It had been designed as a big cog in the nation's defense machinery, but somebody forgot to connect it to the machine. Its first chairman, Arthur M. Hill, could not get along with Harry Truman and quit after 14 months on the job. Then Harry Truman nominated...
...More crucially, it doesn't get far on its music, either: Composer Ellstein's score is just agreeably banal, and the Bullock lyrics are not much fun even when clever. As for the gifted cast, Valerie Bettis is used monotonously, Vivienne Segal rather shabbily, and Stuart Erwin too seldom. Tamiris' choreography gives the show and the ghosts their happiest break...
...Stuart of Navy took the epee championship with 24 1-2 points; Overholser, the captain-elect of the varsity fencers, was close behind with 19 points...