Word: ward
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Died. William Marshall Boyle Jr., 59, astute alumnus of Boss Pendergast's Kansas City school of ward-heeling, machine-tooled politics who as a youth attached himself to County Judge Harry S. Truman, followed him to Washington as a member of his Senate staff, masterminded Truman's upset victory in the 1948 presidential campaign, the following year became chairman of the Democratic National Committee only to resign in 1951 after a Senate investigation grudgingly absolved him of direct personal involvement in influence peddling; in his sleep; in Washington. During the 1948 campaign, Boyle conceived both Truman...
Cheating Can Pay. Such games have all the flaws of the men who design or umpire them. Says Harvard Business School Professor Lewis Bookwalter Ward: "If you second-guess the designer, you can beat hell out of the game." He cites the example of a popular game devised by a research-and-development-minded designer; one sharp team easily drubbed its competitors by pouring virtually all of its resources into R. & D. And it is not how you play the game, but whether you win or lose that counts. In a Princeton game simulating the used-car business, one team...
...practicing law: "If there had been a course in practical politics, I'd have taken that." He was, in fact, getting all the practical politics he could absorb-accompanying his father around the state, stumping for Curley and every other Democratic candidate in sight, and chinning with ward heelers over the mahogany bar in his father's restaurant. At 22, Larry was a rush-hour bartender in O'Brien's Café and Restaurant and chairman of his political ward. That same year he ran for office for the only time in his life...
Died. G. (for George) Ward Price, 75, intrepid London Daily Mail correspondent who covered every European conflict from the Balkan War of 1912 through World War II, scored a succession of 1930s scoops as a Hitler confidant and apologist ("Behind the forceful character which Hitler displays in public, there is a pleasant personality known only to his intimates"); after a long illness; in London...
...ruins of the Roman and Carolingian empires-a fragmented world that wanted unity and found it in the church. From all over Christendom, pilgrims traveled the road to Santiago, where legend has it that the body of St. James-the saint whose spirit 37 times helped the Spaniards ward off the Moors-lies buried. There, about 1080,along "pilgrimage road," a church was begun...