Word: crack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamburg, where his father, a cigarmaker, had set up shop. Beginning work at 14, as a clerk, he moved on to trade-union journalism, eventually headed the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation. A good-natured, soft-spoken labor diplomat as well as a staunch anti-Communist and a crack administrator, Oldenbroek seemed to many outsiders to be the ideal man for the job. "We are going to be efficient, in the American sense," he said last week. "That means when you want something, you go all out, and no rest until...
...crowd. He banged away at a single theme with crusading fervor: "We've come round again to a crucial decision. A vote for Labor means a vote for the ultimate bereavement of freedom." Labor retorted, "Vote for Bob and lose your job!" The Liberals countered with a crack at socialistic regimentation: "Vote for Bob and choose your...
...natural competitor, Greasy has taken a crack at big-league baseball (as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds), coached college football from Marietta College to Yale, including W. & J.'s 1922 Rose Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men, plays cards with them, kids them, takes their kidding, fines them and is even ready to tussle with them. Says big Al Wistert, his All-America tackle: "You can't help playing hard for a guy like that...
Died. Major General George Moore, 62, commander of Corregidor when it fell to the Japanese in 1942; by his own hand (his suicide note said that he feared insanity); on a mountain path near Burlingame, Calif. A crack artilleryman, Texas-born General Moore built up a record (better than 10%) average of antiaircraft destruction on Corregidor. With General Wainwright, theater commander, he surrendered the island to the Japanese and set out on the Bataan Death March to spend three years in Japanese prisons. After the war, he was Army commander in the Pacific, retired eight months ago after 40 years...
Free Rein. Hilton runs his sprawling empire with the help of a crack team which includes Executive Vice President Robert P. Williford, 49, who started as a desk clerk in 1931; Vice President James B. ("J.B.") Herndon Jr., 50, who was the first manager of the Albuquerque Hilton; Vice President Spearl ("Red") Ellison, 36, who started as a $5-a-month bellhop; Vice President Joseph P. Binns, 43, a relative newcomer to the corporation, who managed the Stevens before Hilton took over. Hilton's son Nick, 23, is learning the ropes from them (his other sons by his first...