Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mollify this crowd the U.S. Embassy sent grey-haired Commander Herbert Agar, U.S.N.R., looking like the young Dante in a Navy uniform. Herbert Agar, onetime editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, for the past two and a half years a special assistant to U.S. Ambassador Winant, has long been an eloquent interpreter of the U.S. to Britain...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower learned that he would receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Oxford next month. (So would General Mark Clark, Ambassador John Winant, Harry Hopkins, British Field Marshals Montgomery and Brooke, Air Chief Marshal Tedder...
...Virginia Cowles, 33, pert Manhattan socialite, whose chatty bestseller, Looking for Trouble, recounted her five years (1936-1941) as a roving European correspondent with the charm and looks to meet the right people, lately special assistant to U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant; and R.A.F. Flight Lieut. Aidan Crawley, 37, athletic Oxfordian who was elected to Britain's new Labor Parliament, son of the Rev. Canon A. S. Crawley, chaplain to King George VI; both for the first time; in London...
Divorced. Lieut. Commander Herbert S. S. Agar, 47, 1934 Pulitzer Prize historian (The People's Choice) and New Dealing editor (Louisville Courier-Journal), for the past two years assistant to U.S. Ambassador John Winant in London; by his second wife, Eleanor Carroll Chilton Agar, 46, Smith-and Oxford-educated socialite-litterateur; after twelve years of marriage (no children); in Palm Beach...
...Lieut. John G. Winant Jr., son of the Ambassador to the Court of St. James...