Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty of the University of Tokyo. When my professor-acquaintance heard my name, he asked if I were related to the "great" Doctor Hepburn. I explained the relationship. The next day I was offered a position as "Professor of English Conversation" at the Imperial University . . . Wherever I went in Japan doors were opened wide for me because I was a descendant of the great Doctor...
Chandler Thomas comes by his job quite naturally. His mother was a pianist ; his father was a journalist on the New York World and the Seattle Times. Thomas played trumpet in dance bands around his native Seattle, went to the University of Washington, took up classical music (piano and composition), and became a reporter for the Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. A U.S. Army Air Force pilot during the war, he spent three years as a member of a guerrilla army in the Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under...
...hand to be sworn in as Chief of Naval Operations, quiet, brilliant Admiral Forrest P. Sherman (TIME, Nov. 7) could not conquer telltale signs of strain and emotion. His voice was firm as he vowed to defend the country against "all enemies, foreign or domestic . . ." But as the ceremony went on, in Navy Secretary Francis P. Matthews' big, well-furnished office, he seemed almost on the verge of breaking down...
...unification as a kind of treachery. His predecessor, Admiral Louis Denfeld, who stood stolidly at Sherman's side, thrust out his hand, pumped once, said gruffly: "Good luck." After that, 38 impassive admirals-core of the Navy brass and of the stubborn fight for independence-filed past and went through the same, painful formality...
...could be heard only with difficulty. He was sure, he said, that he would have the help and support of officers who were in the room, and of all in the Navy. There was a dead silence when he concluded. When the ceremony was over, many admirals pointedly went downstairs to applaud Admiral Denfeld on his way out of the building...