Word: named
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is one man who will be remembered as Man of the Year for many, many years. His name: Cardinal Mindszenty...
...time went on, hulking (6 ft. 3, 250 Ibs.) "Cap" Krug began to get into hot water. Word leaked out of an intricate financial transaction which gave Krug and his lawyer control of a Tennessee cotton mill; his name got in the papers in a lawsuit over a $750,000 loan made to him by a New York businessman. It also turned up on the expense accounts of Howard Hughes' Rabelaisian contact man Johnny Meyer for parties in Palm Springs, Hollywood and Manhattan, complete with $100 notations for feminine "entertainment." (Krug indignantly called Meyer's accounts a "swindle...
...large is the U.S. aim); and a suspicious policy of keeping West Germany's sovereignty and industrial potential in stringent check (which is the French aim). Western policy needed new, sharp definition, particularly since the Red puppet state in East Germany was relentlessly wooing Germans in the name of national unity. It was Ernie Bevin who had finally insisted that the ministers get together and do something; he was particularly concerned over continued dismantling of German industry, on which the French have insisted all along...
...close associate of the general in postliberation days, Bidault said last spring: "We are ready to rally around the prodigious name of General de Gaulle." No Gaullist deputy had voted against Bidault when he formed his new government. . Into this situation the newspaper L'Epoque, right-wing but not Gaullist, last week tossed a sensational story. In a signed front-page article, Editor Andre Bougenot declared: "Several important political personalities were recently shown the text of a secret protocol, signed by General de Gaulle and Georges Bidault." The deal, according to Bougenot, was that Bidault, if he became Premier...
...Clarence House, had his accomplishments summed up for him by the British press, which unbent to the point of talking a little baby talk. The royal child weighs 25 Ibs., is tall for his age, has six teeth, already has taken his first steps, and has had his name put down for the Grenadier Guards. Only available quotes-considered adequate by most Britons-as his 40-lb. birthday cake was cut: "Papa...