Word: talbott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys wear boxer or jockey-type shorts? Should they have foam rubber or innerspring mattresses, button or clamp suspenders, optional or compulsory washcloths? But of all the problems, none was causing more fuss last week than the design for the new cadet uniform. It all began when Secretary Harold Talbott flew into Denver six weeks ago. found himself in a huddle with Academy Superintendent Lieut. General Hubert Harmon and Commandant of Cadets Colonel R. W. Stillman...
Last week, while awaiting the DeMille design, Secretary Talbott sent out a memo suggesting that all hands play down the Hollywood angle. "It's getting out of hand; people better understand that we're still making the final decision, not Hollywood." Cracked an academy officer: "We've been afraid people would think our cadets were going to carry spears...
...Philip M. Talbott, 58, senior vice president of Washington's Woodward & Lothrop department store, was elected 1955 president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association. After graduation from Virginia's Randolph-Macon school, Talbott joined W. & L. ("Where my parents shopped when I was a kid. I sort of liked the store") and never left. Starting as a boys'-clothing salesman, he missed few rungs as he climbed, fitted in well with W. & L.'s character: dignified, with a folksy touch. Talbott predicts a 2½% to 3½% boost in total U.S. retail sales this...
After unveiling its latest jet (see above), the Air Force last week looked immediately to a future in which the Voodoo (not yet off the production line) would be outdated. In a speech at the National Press Club, Air Force Secretary Harold E. Talbott said...
SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE HAROLD E. TALBOTT, to the National Press Club...