Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew how to turn out cute promotion pieces and ingratiate himself at newspaper drama desks. To his pastor, the Rev. Ralph Bertholf, he was a pillar of suburban Wakefield's First Baptist Church, a well-favored Sunday-school teacher and editor of the church's paper, Tall Spire. To everyone else, he was a friendly guy who looked much younger than his years, liked a drink now & then, foisted neither his religion nor his politics (whatever they were) on anybody...
...president went tall, affable Leland Ira Doan, 54, who married Dow's sister and went to work for the company 31 years ago. He had risen rapidly, thanks to his selling talents and techniques (e.g., he catalogued prospective customers down to their hobbies before tackling them). As Dow's No. 1 sales executive for the last 19 years, Doan held the No. 2 job in the company, finding markets for the new products (magnesium, plastics, pharmaceuticals, etc.) which Dow turned...
Sharply opposed to Maritain were Harvard's crusty Nobel Prizewinning physicist Percy Bridgman and tall, good-humored Walter Stace, Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton. Bridgman presented the materialistic scientist's view mat the scientific method is enough to guide man, and that problems which could not be dealt with scientifically should be ignored...
Alan Valentine, 48, tall, handsome university president (Rochester) on leave (also Freeport Sulphur Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.), was EGA chief in The Hague. He had come to The Netherlands at Paul Hoffman's persuasion, leaving two children in schools at home. He worked from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., running a 41-man mission, visiting plants, farms, talking with business groups, trying (as he put it) "to get four or five important things done per day, but usually settling...
...Tall, dignified Shukri el-Kuwatly had been called the George Washington of his country, but as Syria's first elected President, ailing, aging (58) El Kuwatly acted more like a traditional, feckless Arab politician. He failed to stamp out corruption, stood indolently by while food prices soared. When he sent his army out to fight the Jews, the army was ignominiously beaten. For months Damascus bazaars had buzzed with rumors that the army would revolt. One night last week...