Word: veteran
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...Ferguson's ex-colleagues in the Senate, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper (to India) and New Jersey's Robert Hendrickson (to New Zealand); an ex-governor, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge (to Spain); and six well seasoned career men, including James Dunn, a veteran of the Rome, Paris and Madrid embassies (to Brazil), James Bonbright, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (to Portugal), and Henry Byroade, razor-sharp former Assistant Secretary of State and Army brigadier general (to Egypt). By and large, these appointments signal a healthy upgrading of the nation's foreign representation...
...Wednesday-night union meetings it soon became clear that Meany was a born leader. Says Dave Holborn, a veteran plumber and an old friend: "George would start out mildly enough, but by the time he finished you could hear him a mile away. Speaking came natural to George, and with very good English, too." He was, says Holborn, "an everything-on-the-level kind of guy-particularly, he was honest." Employers respected George Meany's word...
Died. Rear Admiral William Reynolds Purnell, U.S.N. (ret.), 68, veteran Navy cruiser and battleship skipper between world wars, member (with Physicist Vannevar Bush, Harvard President James B. Conant, Army Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer) of the nation's top policy panel on military use of atomic weapons during the three wartime years before Hiroshima; of pneumonia; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...Yale's veteran basketball coach, Howard Hobson, yesterday advocated a radical revision in the colleges' basketball rules. Speaking before the National Association of Coaches in Kansas City, Hobson said the colleges should follow "public-pleasing" pro rules...
...outlook for the backs, while bright this year, looks poor for next fall. Six of the eight possible starters named by Albert are seniors. Veteran Nat Cooke and quarterback Jerry Marsh are a likely half-back combination, with the centers coming from veteran Buzzy Smith and varsity ends Joe Ross and Bob Cochran. Candidates for the wing positions are Phil Pereira and Argentinian freshman Mike Reynal. Albert will probably play fullback...