Word: whittington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...population increase, which now averages about 250,000 annually-from 70,000 to 80,000 through Tokyo births alone, and a colossal 180,000 annually through immigration from the countryside. As a symbol of power and riches, Tokyo has now become to plain Japanese what London was to Dick Whittington, or New York to Horatio Alger's boys...
Married. William S. Girard, 21, gawky U.S. Army Specialist Third Class, who set off an international legal battle over G.I. rights overseas by killing a Japanese woman in an Army firing area last January, and Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, pert Japanese divorcee; in the Camp Whittington chapel, 60 miles from Tokyo...
Restricted to Camp Whittington, 60 miles from Tokyo, slim, pompadoured Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, 21, parried newsmen with newly polished "no comments," posed for pictures with his fiancée, Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, kept in touch with his lawyers on both sides of the Pacific. As one of his ex-buddies put it, Girard was "learning to walk like a hero" in the growing light of worldwide publicity...
Arthur Smithies, professor of Economics and member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Public Administration, the overall economic policies of the U.S. government; Adam B. Ulam, associate professor of Government, the development of Marxian socialism in the West and in Russia; Harry B. Whittington, associate professor of Geology and Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology, the zonal stratigraphy and fossil faunas of the Bala area, North Wales; John D. Wild, Jr., professor of Philosophy, philosophical anthropology...
...Harmon Whittington, 54, took over as president of Houston's Anderson, Clayton & Co., Inc., world's largest cotton merchants (1952 sales: $892,733,355), succeeding Lamar Fleming Jr., 61, who moved up to chairman. Whittington, who got into the cotton business because it seemed as if cotton buyers had to work only a few months of the year, started with Anderson, Clayton at 18 as a stenographer, rose to salesman, branched out into foreign operations, and has been executive vice president since 1945. ¶Frederick Russell Kappel, 51, took over as president of Western Electric Co. Inc., American...