Word: tennesseean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were still deep fires in the old Tennesseean. For months, in silent retirement, he had smoldered quietly. Now he blazingly erupted...
Smart Operator. Proprietor Billy Wilkerson is a suave, natty Tennesseean with drooping lips and a dark mustache. At 49, he is still as toughly handsome as a Central Casting Corporation gambler. On the Hollywood scale of business he is a midget; yet even in that hyperbolic community, he is regarded with respect. He is the editor-publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, in whose columns it pays, as all Hollywood is aware, to advertise. He promoted and operated the prodigiously successful Trocadero, a nightspot which took in $3,800,000 in two years and eight months. He is a confessed onetime...
...name. Commandant for the last 16 months has been Major General Leven C. Allen, a non-West Pointer who led a machine-gun company in the A.E.F., has a thumping reputation as a teaching soldier. Head of the academic department is Brigadier General George H. Weems, a hard-bitten Tennesseean, who got his nickname of "Daddy" as oldest man in West Point's 1917 class. Both know T.I.S. from early days when they lived in tents, handled 750 students a year...
...years j. Buried in the paper-shuffling details of his mountainous task, he very often does not realize what goes on in the intrigue-ridden old halls of the rococo Department. This rough judgment, made solely in the blazing exigencies of wartime, and without regard to the saintly Tennesseean's years of patient, farseeing service, is current in Washington...
...Harry T. Montgomery, cable news editor of A. P. in Manhattan; Book Editor Alexander Kendrick, Philadelphia Inquirer; Ralph J. Werner, assistant financial editor, Milwaukee Journal; Editorial Writer Charles F. Edmundson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Harry M. Davis, New York Times feature writer; Reporters Nathan G. Caldwell (Nashville Tennesseean), John H. Crider (New York Times Washington bureau), Boyd T. Simmons (Detroit News), William J. Miller (Cleveland Press...