Word: e
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...emissary from the White House slipped quietly into Charles E. Wilson's Manhattan office last week to press an old question. Would Charlie Wilson give up his job as president of General Electric* to take charge of U.S. mobilization in Washington? Wilson, eyeing his visitor through his thick lenses, reconsidered the "No" which had been his answer since Korea. He might accept, said he, if he 1) got full powers to run mobilization his way, and 2) reported directly to the President and not through a middleman. Next day Harry Truman was on the phone: "That," the President told...
...Charles E. (for Edward) Wilson is inevitably confused with General Motors' President Charles E. (for Erwin) Wilson. G.M.'s Wilson likes to refer to himself as "Engine Charlie," and to G.E.'s Wilson as "Electric Charlie...
...what it is, Maryland's lame-duck Senator Millard R. Tydings announced, the family had decided to cancel the elaborate "coming-of-age ball" in Washington's Mayflower Hotel for their pretty, blonde, 18-year-old daughter Eleanor. Both parents and grandparents, onetime Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, decided it would be better to substitute "a small and simple" dance at the Chevy Chase Club "in keeping with the austerity of the times...
...Vern and Booton Herndon were mobbed and beaten up when they attempted to photograph churchgoers leaving a Sunday-morning service. Vern and Herndon were doing a story on Ellenton's mass evacuation to make way for a hydrogen-bomb plant (TiME, Dec. 11). Explained Ellenton Police Chief John E. Steed: since being told they would have to move, "some people have been confused and hardly responsible for their actions...
...succeed Charles E. Wilson, who resigned to take over as director of the new Office of Defense Mobilization (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), General Electric's directors last week picked Executive Vice President Ralph J. Cordiner...