Word: washington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearing his famed black beret and crackling with splintery opinions, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein popped into Washington last week. Though his visit was unofficial, Monty, as military chief of Europe's Western Union forces, delivered one deliberate message...
...York adventures began, after five days of entertainment in Washington (TiME, Nov. 28), as he rode from the Battery to City Hall in an open car (drawing a street crowd of 200,000 and a flattering paper shower) to receive an official reception from Mayor William O'Dwyer. In 72 hours he spoke at three banquets and three luncheons, paid post-midnight calls on a series of nightclubs, went to three museums, visited the Arab library at Princeton University and inspected the pressrooms of the Newark News...
...including Muzak, which pipes canned music into restaurants and cocktail lounges). Shortly after World War II, he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of selling the U.S. to the world with the Voice of America. Chester Bowles, who left the ad business several years after Benton, went to Washington himself as chief...
After both had left Washington again, New Dealing Chester Bowles got himself elected governor of Connecticut while restless Bill Benton was still looking for something new to keep him busy. Last week, news leaked from the governor's office in Hartford that Bill Benton, now 49, had finally found it. To the ill-concealed dismay of Connecticut's regular Democrats, his old friend and partner Chester Bowles had decided on Benton, an independent and member of no political party, to succeed Republican Raymond E. Baldwin, who leaves the U.S. Senate this month for a seat on the Connecticut...
Jackson was dissenting sharply from a Supreme Court ruling last week, disbarring an aged patent lawyer from practice before the U.S. Patent Office because he had submitted a ghostwritten article as evidence. He was also pointing up an old Washington custom: ghostwriters had become as much a part of the furniture of modern government as the Mimeograph machine. Many a legislator was as helpless without his ghost as Jack Benny without his gagmen. They appeared on congressional payrolls as "secretaries," in executive departments as "administrative assistants" and "information specialists." And on the Supreme Court itself, some Justices' legal styles...