Word: williams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief, turned in 22,000 words of firsthand reporting for our Sept. 12 cover story on Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. He had two long sessions with St. Laurent (the most time the Prime Minister has given to any publication since taking office), another with ex-Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who fed him tea, toast, and honey made by his own bees...
Crommelin got some hearty support. Five-star Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, after lunching with Crommelin in his Washington home, declared: "He deserves the help and respect of all naval officers." In the Pentagon, there was stunned silence, then a rustle of conferring Navy brass. Hastily, Crommelin was yanked from his job with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but was plopped into a better billet: director of naval-aviation personnel. It was a rear admiral...
...Reliable. The machine clanked to a dismal crawl. But handsome William F. Meade, a 44-year-old ex-ward leader who had mounted to the driver's seat only three days before the scandals began, seemed almost pleased. A tough, square-jawed Irishman, he had come to the chairmanship of the Republican Central Campaign Committee from the squalid slums of the Tenth Ward (known as the Old Reliable because it never fails to produce a Republican majority). He went to work at 14, climbed up through the machine's hierarchy by ambition, hustle, a fast smile...
...week's end, it began to look as if Harold Medina might soon be delivered from the trial, which had been a lot tougher on him than on the accused. Defense attorneys, having about run through their list of key witnesses, began reading the deposition of William Z. Foster, national chairman of the Communist Party, who was too ill to appear in person...
Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17, who was engaged to All-America Glenn Davis for eleven months before she gave him back his gold football last June, broke her four-month engagement to William D. Pawley Jr., 28, but kept the 3^-carat diamond ring that she had lightly called, in happier times, a "nice piece...