Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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For the President-elect's press entourage, the baby's birth was the first crisis since the election. Newsmen had been filled in minute by minute as they flew back to Washington, but one inevitably sought detail was missing from the intimate picture. What did the baby look...
Such an answer would have astonished and perhaps irritated the assembled newsmen had it come from Eisenhower's Press Secretary Jim Hagerty. But it caused no fuss coming from Pierre Salinger, a pudgy, 35-year-old father of three who looks naked without a cigar clamped between his teeth...
Boy Skipper. Born in San Francisco, Pierre Salinger* was a child prodigy at the piano, at the age of six impressed an audience at Toronto's International Exposition by rippling off a Haydn sonata.
After two years at San Francisco State College he joined the Navy and, just before his 18th birthday, became one of the youngest men ever to skipper a U.S. Navy ship, taking over a submarine chaser. Returning to San Francisco in 1946, Salinger became within five years, at 26, night...
Innovation Through Jack. Salinger's career at Collier's was short and bitter sweet: he was preparing an expose of West Coast Teamsters. Union operations when the magazine folded in 1956. Bobby Kennedy, counsel to the U.S. Senate's special subcommittee investigating labor rackets, heard of Salinger...