Word: waugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Banker from Lincoln. The man who minds Ex-Im's till is Samuel Clark Waugh, 65, a longtime Nebraska banker with a wide-open mind and the appropriately chubby (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) build of a Santa Claus. Going to Washington in 1953 after 40 years with the First Trust Co. of Lincoln, the last seven as president, he took charge of international economic affairs for the State Department, became a vocal and effective champion of freer trade. Traveling thousands of miles in 28 months, Waugh helped write the GATT agreements in Geneva, campaigned for Japan...
...president since last fall, Banker Waugh has worked hard to boost overseas loans. Back in the early days of the Administration Treasury Secretary Humphrey, who had to lend the bank its funds, was skeptical, wanted to cut down. But after studying the bank's consistent profits ($59 million in fiscal 1955), he became an ardent booster, hand-picked Waugh and backed his policy of increasing the flow of loans. Now President Waugh is funneling out new loans at a greater rate than last year. Among them: $19.6 million to the Santos-Jundiai Railway in Brazil...
...Waugh-begone women, Bijou Ardglass and Baby Wentworth, who hunt their gross and boorish businessmen prey. One of the girls ends up in a bad marriage to an Italian. ("His profession?" "I don't think I know you well enough to tell...
Novelist Alec Waugh, Evelyn's elder brother, can squeeze out this sort of dialogue as fluently as any large-sized tube. To his gift of the gab, Alec adds a bird's-eye view of life: his new novel is fairly crammed to the horizons with ever-speaking likenesses. The book is a Literary Guild selection for January, has been condensed, serialized, and bought for the movies...
...course of bringing all these suspicions to a head, doughty Author Waugh comes at least partly to grips with just about every personal, social and political problem that modern life can present. He even tackles that old favorite of the girls: Should I be a Good-Time-with-the-Boys or a Darling-I'm-So-Glad-I-Waited lassie? Waugh's implication (that men are much too dumb to know if a girl has waited or not) is the only trace of cynicism in a book that is filled to overflowing with a sense of boneless wonder...