Word: genial
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week, with U.S. warships' guns again being fired in anger in another part of the world, the two navies made a special point of reaffirming their friendship. In Washington, U.S. Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, welcomed genial Admiral Flavio Figueiredo de Medeiros, 62, chief of staff of Brazil's navy and Sherman's guest for a twelve-day visit to the U.S. After meeting U.S. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and attending some white-glove parties, the Brazilian admiral, who commanded the 1st (Rio) naval district during the latter part of World War II, embarked...
...after a six months' trial, is hired for life, 25 staffers have worked there more than 30 years, including Acting Editor Harry Rogoff, 67. As Editor Cahan has become less active, Rogoff has taken over more & more of his duties. Business boss is General Manager Alexander Kahn, a genial lawyer whose friends describe him as "the East Side's ambassador to the uptown Jews...
North Carolina's Dr. William de Berniere MacNider, 69, one of the world's top authorities on diseases of the kidneys and the effects of age and injury on cell tissue. A professor of pharmacology for 45 years, gentle, genial Dr. MacNider also served off & on as village doctor in the town of Chapel Hill, spent his time between calls and classes puttering about his garden reading philosophy, or suddenly popping up on neighbors' doorsteps with a bouquet in his hands...
...majors, he once deliberately stomped his spiked shoe on Lou Gehrig's foot to make him drop a throw. As a manager who has gone through some soul-searing troubles (e.g., he was fired from the Yankees after finishing third in 1948) he has developed into a fatherly, genial boss. But with untalented discards and untried rookies, Harris (rejoining Washington this year for his third term as manager) is in for what promises to be a tedious rehabilitation...
...kids bought ice cream and hot dogs from shining blue trailers (the Communists had specially lowered the price of hot dogs for the occasion). They rode merry-go-rounds and Ferris wheels. Giggling girls had their pictures taken with genial Soviet G.I.s. The rally's propa- ganda motif was "Friendship." Wherever two groups of blue-shirted youngsters met, they shouted "Freundschaft!" at each other. Truckloads of grinning Communist cops-looking as incongruous as gunmen at a Sunday picnic-careened through the streets, yelling "Freundschaft!" at the moppets, who enthusiastically returned the salute...