Word: vaughan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked him to be an investigator for Truman's war contracts investigating committee. As others recall it, Boyle was desperate, and Harry Truman put him on as a sort of personal aide, at $350 a month. In 1942, Truman's old Missouri crony and secretary, Harry Vaughan, went off to the Army, and the Senator gave Vaughan's job to Boyle. Bill became a specialist on the boss's political problems, and in 1944 moved over to the Democratic National Committee to try to help Truman get the vice-presidential nomination. He got it. Bill Boyle...
When his tutor died of a heart attack in 1946, the lonely King sought other companions. His choices were strange. One was a short, baldheaded Lebanese journalist named Kareem Tabet, who is now the King's press counselor and confidant, has been described as Egypt's Harry Vaughan. Another of the King's favorites is a little Italian named Pulley Bey, a former palace barber and electrician whom (so the story goes) Farouk used to follow around when he was a child, watching with fascination as he screwed in light bulbs. Now he is a combination court...
...embassy, the Dominican Republic's ambassador, Dr. Luis Thomen, pinned his country's Order of Juan Pablo Duarte (highest decoration given a foreigner) on Major General Anthony C. ("Nuts") McAuliffe, hero of Bastogne. On hand to get the same medal (his tenth foreign decoration): Major General Harry Vaughan, for "outstanding service to humanity . . . a staunch defender of the lofty ideals of western civilization...
Invited by the Pennsville, NJ. Veterans of Foreign Wars to make a Memorial Day speech, Major General Harry H. Vaughan regretfully refused. Explained the President's senior military aide: "Unfortunately, my experience with the gentlemen of the press over the last several years has forced me to retire from the field of speechmaking. It is not really part of my duty. Every time I try to help somebody out, I seem to get into trouble ... So I think it is better to just refrain from making speeches...
...Columbia's heels, seven other record companies got top performers in both barn and ballroom categories to record it; most called on professional lyricists to hoke up the song's meager words. Among those on sale by this week: Red Foley (Decca), Herb Jeffries (Coral), Vaughan Monroe (Victor), Bing Crosby (Decca...