Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Rita Hayworth, 26, cinemactress; and Orson Welles, 29, showman: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Weight: 6½ Ibs.
Postwar books were popular. Nothing but a wide and deep national interest could account for the extraordinary popularity of Sumner Welles's authoritative but ponderously written treatise on world organization, The Time for Decision, which week after week stayed second only to Bob Hope's I Never Left...
More important than these amiable efforts, Stettinius in 14 months had again proven himself a loyal underling. He was certainly not so capable nor informed as previous Under Secretaries-Sumner Welles, for example. But he had been a faithful executor of the Secretary's will, as they had not...
New Diplomat. The scramble for Hull's job was short, eager and one-sided. The biggest and fastest boom billowed up for OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes. The dopesters had other names, too, especially the three "Ws"-Wallace, Winant and Welles. But most of the dopesters were wrong.
Welles took it handsomely, as do most of McCarthy's targets, who are invariably delighted to be ribbed by such a supereminence. In his wooden insouciance,