Word: williams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between, Harry Truman reluctantly said goodbye to two tired veterans who had long been hoping to move on. One was old (73), corrugated Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy-presidential chief of staff for both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman-who had been ailing, and writing his war memoirs since Jan. 1. In a little ceremony at the White House, Harry Truman awarded Billy Leahy his third Distinguished Service Medal, pinned the medal with two gold stars on his beribboned jacket...
Last week TIME Correspondent William White called on Vargas at his farm not far from the Argentine border. White found the short-legged little man deeply tanned from days in the saddle, a picture of health at 65. O Presidente wore a faded blue shirt tucked into a gaucho's baggy blue bomachos...
Moving into Collier's with new Editor Ruppel was a new publisher and old friend: Edward Anthony, 53, who succeeded retiring Publisher William L. Chenery, 64. Anthony will also stay on as publisher of Crowell-Collier's Woman's Home Companion (circ. 3,755,000), while Tom Beck plans to take a back seat and let the new team do the driving. Where was the team heading? Said Editor Ruppel: "What the editor of a weekly magazine is going to do he has to do once a week. You can read that in the magazine...
...office, he always berated the editors for stagnating in his absence, then dumped a suitcaseful of "great ideas" on their desks. McClure published the first magazine articles on X ray, radium, Marconi's wireless, the Wrights' flying machine and twilight sleep; he discovered Willa Gather, helped popularize William Dean Howells and Joel Chandler Harris, introduced Stevenson, Kipling and A. Conan Doyle to their first big U.S. audiences...
Among those with reason to be happy about Russian Hero's victory were Sportsman-Farmer William Williamson, his owner, who had bet ?10 on him at 300 to 1 in the winter books, collected a cool $12,000. Also prideful was the London Daily Worker's handicapper, who had picked Russian Hero to win, insisting that the tip was not purely political, just a bettor's hunch...