Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House lay in the performance of Major General Wilton B. (for Burton) Persons, successor to New Hampshire's Sherman Adams as Assistant to the President of the U.S. The difference between Sherm Adams and "Jerry" Persons is more of manner than method. Adams was the stern, testy New Englander, all business and no chitchat. Persons, 63, is a mellow, Scotch-sipping, storytelling Alabaman, whose years as a U.S. Army liaison man on the Hill (1933-38, 1939-49), as head of the Defense Department's Hill representatives (1948-49), and as Ike's link with Congress...
Philip Van Doren Stern, Ford visitor at Winthrop House this week, will speak in the Senior Common Room today at 4:45 p.m. His topic will be "Some Unexplored Areas in Lincoln and Civil War History." Stern is best known for his Civil War studies, his most recent volume being The Assassination of President Lincoln...
...National Security Council meeting, battened down the U.S. determination to fight, if necessary, to defend the Western position in Berlin. He called in congressional leaders of both parties to muster a show of national unity. He tried to restrain U.S. allies from sliding off on tangents, kept up a stern front as Communism's Khrushchev changed pace from "global holocaust" threats to such seeming concessions as an indefinite extension of the May 27 deadline for Berlin settlement (see FOREIGN NEWS). All week, Dwight Eisenhower was the man in command of the Berlin situation, to the point of acting...
...General Board's 150 delegates were not ready to apply the "reconciling realities" to Red China in a political sense. They approved a stern official denial that the council had ever been, or intended to be, "soft toward Communism," voted unanimously to "receive" the Cleveland meeting's Red China recommendation. This means neither approval nor disapproval, but simply further study...
...March 4 Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The engaging musical variety show bubbles on, this time with Soprano Eileen Farrell, Violinist Isaac Stern, the Joe Bushkin Quartet, Ann Blyth and Howard Keel...