Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uncanny: he showed an instantaneous grasp of personnel problems, gave subordinates snappy decisions which constantly left them with an awed "why-didn't-I-think-of-that?" feeling. He handled his bosses with equal ease. The day he learned that peppery Lord Beaverbrook was taking over the Ministry, young Franks mourned to a friend that "that awful little man" would wreck the organization. Then he had a second thought, and added: "I think I'll look into the office over the weekend...
...young man he came under the influence of Friedrich Naumann, long a leader in the German Liberal movement. Heuss met pretty Elly Knapp in the Naumann movement ("If Naumann had turned Buddhist," she said later, "I would have followed him into that, too"). Heuss and Elly were married by their close friend Albert Schweitzer, later to become the great humanitarian missionary and philosopher (TiME, July...
...Loyalists shot young Moscardo...
...height of the revolt, the general, learning that his son had been ordered to the capital, demanded by radio whether the government meant "to repeat the terrible situation in which Spanish Republicans put Colonel Moscardo." The government in La Paz, whose transfer of young Lieut. Calleja had been wholly routine, saw a chance to put itself in a chivalrous light. It radioed the rebel general that his son would be sent to him in the safekeeping of the Brazilian military attache...
Wrestle the System. Otherwise, most of the young giant's problems were of the sort to be solved by a firm of outfitters to large men. He became the star of the basketball team, progressed from near illiteracy to lead the college literary society; he had decided on a career as a writer when he discovered that his true genius was musical. For Thurs, it was a short step from hymns on the harmonica to composing a fugue for the piano. In short, he might have been voted most likely to succeed had not his wrestling the "Christian system...