Word: manneredness
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Late in the week, right on his own staff, Charlie Wilson found the man: Donald A. Quarles, Assistant Secretary of Defense for research and development (see box). In contrast to stormy Harold Talbott, Quarles is so mild-mannered that some Pentagon aides cautioned Secretary Wilson that he "might not put...
A big, open-mannered man who was on first-name terms with more members of Congress than anyone else overseas, "Smiling Jack" often said that after finishing his Thailand assignment, he would like to jump into South Carolina politics and run for the Senate. He was a man who was...
At a gilded gambling resort in Las Vegas, shy, poker-faced TV Comic Wally (Mr. Peepers) Cox was dealt out of an 11,000-a-week hand for the second time in less than a fortnight (TIME, July 25). Reason: he again failed to draw a full house. After first...
Polished Partnership. Ever since 1943 when he broke into the Negro leagues, Newcombe has been demonstrating his lusty skill on the diamond. Mrs. Effa Manley, owner of the Newark (N.J.) Eagles, gave him his first big chance in 1944 simply because he looked big enough (6 ft. 4 in., 225...
Preceded by some of the surliest advance notices ever published in the Hollywood press, an erstwhile TV star, Tennessee's mild-mannered Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, quietly moved into the movie capital last week. Sitting as a one-man Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency, Prober Kefauver was looking for...