Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Round Peg. Ike kept his business routine to a minimum. For two hours each morning, he went over the mail and dictated answers to his secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman. After that, his two aides, Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens and Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, briefed him on the morning news and the day's dilemmas. Confronted by a problem, Ike would think it over for a moment, his forefinger and thumb playing with the cap on his front tooth. Then he would spring from his chair, pace the floor and announce his decision in a quick sentence...
President Jordan waited in vain last night for two policeman who accused a Radcliffe girl of stealing a five helmet. The officers appeared Monday night at Whitman clutching a picture of the Radcliffe Song Contest from the October 28 Boston "Globa...
...Katherine Mann, head resident of Whitman, refused to identify the wearer of the helmet which the police claimed had been stolen last week from the Cambridge fire department Promising to return at 6:30 last night, the policemen left...
When contacted, the Cambridge fire chief said. It's all news to me. We don't want the helmet unless it's a new one." The helmet in the Globe picture has belonged to Whitman in three years...
...asking "if he could have his meals with the crew." In New York (for the production of Within the Gates'), he landed in a world of "walnut and mahogany reflecting the gleam of glass and the glitter of silver," a world more "fit for Arnold Bennett. . . than . . . Walt Whitman." At which point the reader suspects that it fit O'Casey like a glove...