Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Journalist Root thinks there will still be room for a new (or a very old) kind of mission and missionary. There will no longer be "elaborately housed institutions." "The primitive 'rough it' work of the 1st Century disciples comes to mind. The Friends' Ambulance Unit, though it has no evangelization work, is active in Communist China and suggests a pattern. It would be a labor of tents and poor food and maybe overalls...
Captain Edward Hensch of Houston, Tex. was scheduled for a 2 p.m. take-off from Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport on his second round to Berlin that day. He stopped in the operations room to collect his copilot, 1st Lieut. William Baker of Los Angeles. Baker was holding, somewhat awkwardly, a bunch of flowers he had received that morning from a grateful family at Tempelhof airdrome. The Germans are always turning up with flowers and the airmen are always embarrassed (but pleased too). More painful than the actual donation is the necessity of carrying the flowers into the operations...
...Estimated time of arrival. *Wartime chief of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division, whose present "quartermaster" job is something of a return of his beginnings: no West Pointer, Huebner started his Army career as a cook...
Then, after arranging to continue the supply of copies of TIME for the U.S. Embassy staff in Prague, TLJ waited to see what would happen to the newsstand copies of TIME'S March 1st and 8th issues, carrying accounts of the Communist coup, and the March 15th issue of LIFE International, which had a story on Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University. Word came on March 8 that TIME was banned for keeps from Czechoslovakian newsstands and that LIFE would henceforth be censored for "antiCommunist" content...
Between wars, Cates served variously as a White House aide to Woodrow Wilson, recruiting officer and China hand. In May 1942, he was appointed commanding officer of the ist Marine Regiment. With the 1st, he helped seize Guadalcanal. After Guadalcanal, he moved to Saipan, took over command of the 4th Marine Division. Gates led the 4th in its famed assaults on Tinian and Iwo Jima. Military experts have since described the Tinian assault as "the perfect amphibious operation." To get ready for it, Cates personally did aerial reconnaissance over the island. Once ashore, he visited the front lines almost daily...