Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Cabinet nominee turned down for reasons of personality alone. In a long career of public service, Strauss has distinguished himself. But he has a thorny, give-and-ask-no-quarter personality; he also has an implacable opponent of great talent and resolve. The result is Washington's highest drama - played out on the Senate floor, in cloakrooms, at black-tie dinners, in the seats at Griffith Stadium. As written by Bill Bowen and edited by Champ Clark, see the cover story on The Strauss Affair...
...round-shouldered man with a conspicuous smile curling on lips that more often turn soberly downward. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson was obviously happy with his thoughts. Spotting Anderson alone in the corridor, a newsman hurried up, asked a question heard constantly throughout Washington: "Will he make it?" Anderson paused, drew from his inside coat pocket a well-worn tally sheet, heavily marked with circles and underlines in blue ink. The smile tugged harder at the corners of his mouth. "I'm not worried any more," said Clinton Anderson. "There will be enough votes...
...accepting the scholarship offered to him by the University of Virginia, Strauss set out to sell shoes for the family firm, headed southward with volumes of Latin poetry-Virgil, Ovid, Horace-packed along with his samples. After four years in the shoe business, he took a train to Washington in 1917 and offered his services as a volunteer worker for Herbert Hoover's Belgian Relief Commission. Drawing no pay (he skimped along on his savings), Strauss worked for Hoover for 2½ years, first as a sort of office boy and then as secretary ("My jewel of a secretary...
Battle for the Bomb. A Reserve lieutenant commander, Strauss headed for Washington at the outbreak of World War II to do deskbound Navy duty. Bad eyesight, the result of a boyhood rock fight, kept him out of shooting war. In wartime Washington, he originated the morale-building idea of awarding an "E" (for Excellence) pennant to outstanding war plants, helped set up the Office of Naval Research, wound up with the rank of rear admiral and the top medals a chairborne warrior could win: Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit...
John E. Gausted '59, of Winthrop House and Minneapolis, Minn., Charles L. Glenn Jr. '59, of Eliot House and Washington, D.C., Guido G. Goldman '59, of Winthrop House and New York City, Robert Goldman '59, of Winthrop House and Far Rockaway, N.Y., Thomas L. Gritzka '59, of Dunster House and Portland, Ore., John M. Gross '59, of Leverett House and Brookline, Victor W. Guillemin '59, of Leverett House and Oak Park, III., Robert C. Hartshorne '58, of Kirkland House and Cambridge, Gregory M. Harvey '59, of Kirkland House and Morristown, N.Y., Ralph H. Henderson '60, of Kirkland House and Pleasantville...