Word: walters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crommelin's impetuous and reckless revolt against civilian control had made him the darling of half the officers in the service. It seemed quite possible that a court-martial might make him both a hero and a martyr. It was certain to stir up new publicity (Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, U.S.N.R., had rushed a New York lawyer to Washington to defend Crommelin...
...chill day in Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith decided he wanted to go fishing. He drove his car out to the Moscow Sea (an artificial lake near the capital) without notifying his MVD guards, who shadowed him everywhere he went. He persuaded the head of a-small fishery to take him out on the lake in the only rowboat in sight. Smith assumed that the guards, who had of course followed him, would wait at the shore. But he had underestimated "the Oriental concept .of hospitality" which he encountered in Russia. Related Smith last week in My Three Years...
...Walter Giblin, wife of a Manhattan broker and a two-day-a-week volunteer worker at Memorial Cancer Center for the last eight months, had worked out a stock and true answer for patients who tell her: "You know, you look just like Constance Talmadge, the silent movie star." Mrs. Giblin's answer: "That's good, because...
...started it, we two, and here we are today, playing the game that was once all things to all men and is now nothing to anyone but us. We had Pudge Heffelfinger and Walter Camp, P. D. Haughton and Ned Mahan, and we were Kings together in those days. Today we have four victories between...
Eliot House's undefeated football team ran into some unexpectedly tough opposition from Yale's Berkeley College on Walter Camp Field yesterday but nevertheless fashioned a 7 to 0 win. Prior to the game, Yale's champion intramural team had also been undefeated...