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Word: tomming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eloquence for Hire. Currently, Washington's most conspicuous ghost is President Truman's Clark Clifford (Economic Adviser Elliott Bell performs the same function for the Republicans' Governor Tom Dewey). Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington is supplied with speeches by young, cocky Steve Leo, onetime Maine newsman; Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan by ex-TIME Reporter Wesley McCune. General Omar Bradley's famed, soldierly prose is the product of Lieut. Colonel Chet Hansen, an ex-newspaperman who planned to leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Trouble with Ghosts | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Snapped by Photographer Tom Howard, with a camera strapped to his shin. To get the picture, he sat in the front row, pulled up his pants-leg and snapped the shutter while the attention of officers was fixed on the execution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death-House Hullabaloo | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Last year's top two are back in the other two specialties: Tom Wood and John Steinhardt, backstroke, and Win Briggs and Gordon Weir, diving. Sophomore Hugh Hartwell is a rising backstroke prospect and Frank Manheim, ineligible as a transfer student last year, may be the third man on the springboard...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Swimming Team Has Big Problems | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

...Eastern contingent, which leaves Decameter 18, will be coached by Dartmouth's Tesn McLaughry an Colgate's Andy Kerr. Other members of the team picked yesterday are: Hillary Chollet and pote Dorset (Cornell), Tom Rowe (Dartmouth), Bucky Walters (Brown), Phil Ryan (Navy), Clayton Tonnemaker and Gordon Soltan (Minnesota), and John Schweder (Penn). When complete, the squad will number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houston In East-West Game | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

Right now Chase and his three assistants are rehearing a squad of 30 three of four times a week at the Arena an Boston Skating Club in an effort to fill the holes left by such graduated standouts as Dave Key, Tom Moseley, and Dick Grecley. The first game comes up Saturday with M.I.T., and the coaches have a fair idea of who will take the ice. But there isn't any starting lineup...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Skaters, Girding for Opener, Boast an Experienced Team | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

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