Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, belching fire like one of his own flamethrowers, the Marines' General Holland M. Smith scorched open an old, still angry scar. Writing with cantankerous zest in the Saturday Evening Post, "Howlin' Mad" revived his case against the Army's Major General Ralph Smith and his 27th Division, a New York National Guard outfit transferred to Marine command for the Saipan invasion...
Marines' Version. The essence of Howlin' Mad's case was simple: the 27th would not fight, and Ralph Smith would not make them fight (TIME, Sept. 18, 1944). Seven days after the Saipan landing he had ordered the 27th to move up between the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions for the big attack northward along the spine of the island...
...27th was an hour or more late getting started; it moved no more than a few steps when the advance finally began...
Gaps opened between the fast-moving marines and the stalled 27th. The whole attack ground to a halt...
Miss Gordon opens her pretty little box in the year 1899 and reveals the rest of her collection of dolls. They area group of elegantly clad New Yorkers, sitting around sipping wine at the fashionable residence of the celebrated acting couple, Gerald and Gay Marriott, on West 27th Street. As they are very witty and biting in their speech, it is apparent that they are contemporaries of Oscar Wilde. The talk is about their hosts who have just opened in a new play. One particularly saucy young man tells how Gay (Miss Gordon) was "discovered" by Gerald, already an established...