Word: williams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Churchill battled Herbert Morrison over a relatively unimportant issue (whether or not Laborite William Whiteley should be elected to an Assembly vice presidency), the world saw an important spectacle: the political tussles of something very like an international parliament. In the corridor outside the assembly hall, in plain view of all Europe, Churchill grabbed the lapels of Liberal Lord Layton, whom he backed against Whiteley. "If you rat on me now in spite of our 40 years' friendship," hissed Churchill, "I will never speak to you again." Tory delegates patrolled the corridors, lobbying for Layton. Two Danes asked...
Bill Instructs. Mother & daughter agreed on William D. Pawley Jr., the 28-year-old son of the transit magnate and former ambassador to Brazil. Elizabeth met Bill last March in Miami while she and Glenn were still doing their gossip-column hitch. Every afternoon for a week Bill gave her driving lessons, every night he took her to a party. During the Easter holidays he flew to the Coast. Last June, after school was out, mother & daughter flew to Miami to stay at the Pawleys'. There Elizabeth and Bill announced their engagement...
Unlike Founder Sill and retiring Headmaster Father William Scott Chalmers (who was California-bound to take over North Hollywood's Harvard School), lean, 41-year-old John Oliver Patterson has never been a monastic. Born in Goldfield, Nev., he was originally trained as an architect at the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After two years as a practising architect the new "pater" left his drawing board for the ministry, now has 15 bustling years in Midwestern parishes behind him. In the last eight years he has swelled his Madison, Wis. congregation from...
Until last week, it was not quite true that Montgomery Ward's autocratic Sewell Lee Avery could not get along with anybody. He apparently got along with William L. Ready, president of U.S. Gypsum Co., of which Avery is also board chairman. As eleven senior officers and directors walked out of Montgomery Ward's in a year (TIME, May 31, 1948 et seg.), Avery liked to point to Keady to show that he could "get along with associates who function in their jobs...
...June, Radio Veteran William Sweets, 53, for the past six years director of Gangbusters and Counter-Spy, resigned from both shows. Last week, in his first public statement, he gave his reasons: "I was told that pressure-a campaign of letter-writing complaining of my political views -had led the advertising agencies and sponsors [Pepsi-Cola and General Foods] to decide to renew their contracts only if someone else directed the shows...