Word: thompson
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...service liberal who was weak on civil rights. To make telephone calls on his behalf to Democratic leaders, Bolling had enlisted a notable Democrat from his home district: Harry Truman of Independence. But just before New Year's, Bolling and his manager, New Jersey's Representative Frank Thompson, caucused over lunch at Washington's venerable Occidental restaurant and decided that the fight was hopeless. Needing at least 128 votes to win, Bolling's effort had peaked at 78, and his strength was already slipping away...
First hints of the new line went out to Moscow via the shrewd, cautious U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, Llewellyn E. Thompson. Donning his karakul hat, Thompson paid a call on Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. His task was once again to probeMoscow's intentions. After 2-½ hours of cautious verbal fencing, Gromyko still wanted to talk only about getting Western troops out of Berlin, offered no hint whatsoever of any Russian concessions. "It was agreed that the discussions will be continued," Thompson announced carefully...
...chiefs of mission now serving abroad, 70% are career Foreign Service men. Obviously this is no guarantee of success but the caliber of the professionals is rising. In some of the world's most complex areas (see story above), career men like Llewellyn E. Thompson were quietly and steadily at work last week. As for Kennedy's 28 "political" appointees, half come from education, law or journalism, while nine more come from other Government jobs. Three of the liveliest choices-and likeliest successes-among the new appointees are notable for their background, personality and high professional qualifications...
Dictating at breakneck speed without rewriting a word, Kennan turns out some of the best telegrams in the Foreign Service-and he does not necessarily stick to Yugoslav affairs. A Kennan cable is apt to begin: "While bowing to Tommy Thompson's superior knowledge since he is on the scene in Moscow, I do believe it might be useful to consider...
Bill Vaughan, a latecomer to the trade, became a paragrapher by chance. After three years of newspapering in Springfield, Mo., he joined the editorial staff of the Star in 1939, worked at various assignments until the paper's resident paragrapher. the late Clad H. ("Pip") Thompson, retired in 1946. Vaughan replaced Pip as custodian of "Starbeams," a column of paragraphs that has stuck to the Star's editorial page since the paper's birth in 1880. (The first Starbeam: "Modjeska [a prominent 19th century actress] is fond of onions.") In 1953, when the Detroit News...