Word: 44th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the 44th annual convocation of Yale's Divinity School, the Rev. Hugh Hartshorne. 68, professor of the psychology of religion, poured out some of the lessons he has learned in over 40 years as a teacher. "I am the senior member of our faculty," he said. "I can say what I like, and I shall...
Seyen Eastern and one Canadian college ski teams were entered last night in the two-day, four-event meet, feature attraction of Dartmouth's 44th annual winter carnival today and Saturday...
Major General William Frische Dean drove the 44th Division hard through Mannheim and Weinheim; then, swinging south toward Austria, the 44th took Lorch, Ulm (where Napoleon had routed 50,000 Austrians), Memmingen and Kempten, and cleared the Fern Pass. Obviously, the war was in its last phase, but strapping Bill Dean would not relax. He called in his regimental commanders and told them: "Our business is fighting. We will keep on fighting until we get the official word that the war has ended...
Dean plunged into the combat training with his customary vigor. He had a theory that by the time the 44th reached the Siegfried Line most of the enlisted men who knew how to operate flamethrowers would probably be dead. He organized a flamethrower school for junior officers so they could train new technicians as the division moved along. At one of the training sessions, a young captain spilled napalm on his uniform, which promptly burst into flame. Dean knocked him down in the dirt to extinguish the fire, and some of the flaming liquid spilled on his own leg. Dean...
...Brien, the stateless soldier of fortune-possibly Hungarian, possibly American-who boarded the Hong Kong-Macao ferry last September, only to find that he could not land on either shore because he had no passport (TIME, Oct. 13). By last week O'Brien had completed his 44th round trip between the China Sea ports. He had reached a sort of understanding with the Lee Hong's captain and crew. O'Brien, who was once a ship's engineer, may get a paying berth aboard the ferry if a vacancy occurs. The ship went into drydock...