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...received visitors in his paneled office, where an antique pendulum clock loudly ticks among the modern furnishings. Usually he slid out from behind his big desk to sit beside the visitor on a comfortable red leather sofa. At week's end he watched as chubby, square-jawed James Webb was sworn in as his Under Secretary. Said Acheson: "I have here your commission . . . I hand it to you and congratulate myself...
...Kiss Me, Kate proves better than any of his previous work, he is one of the most thoroughly trained musicians among U.S. popular composers. He is as painstaking a craftsman as any. He is no less rigorously professional in his approach to what his good friend, Actor Clifton Webb, calls "the perfectly regulated life...
...Secretary of State would be Dean Acheson, said the President, and James E. Webb-now Director of the Budget-would be Under Secretary. The new Director of the Budget would be the present Assistant Director, Frank Pace...
...Under Secretary of State, James Edwin Webb, at 42 is a swiftly rising star in the Administration. A broad-shouldered and affable North Carolinian, Webb is a lawyer and a former vice president of the Sperry Corp. A pilot, he was a wartime Stateside major in Marine aviation. A protégé of North Carolina's late O. Max Gardner, Webb became Truman's Director of the Budget in July 1946. There he made many friends, no enemies. When a reporter asked the President what Webb's qualifications were for Under Secretary of State, Harry Truman...
Henry Foster (H) defeated Webb (UC), 3-2; Shell (UC) defeated Hugh Foster (H), 3-1; Tashjain (UC) defeated Clark (H), 3-0; McKittrick (H) defeated Vanderhoff (UC), 3-0; Lebeowich (UC), defeated Ames...