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...Brigadier General Taylor became artillery commander of the Army's first airborne division, the 82nd, commanded by General Matt Ridgway. He soon found that it was his kind of outfit. "I don't like to jump," Taylor once confessed frankly, "but I like to be with people who like to jump." Taylor went into action with the 82nd in Africa and Sicily, soon earned a reputation as a tough, resourceful officer and was singled out for one of the most dramatic cloak-and-dagger missions...
...17th anniversary of its D-day liberation from the Nazis, the Norman village of Sainte-Mère-Eglise had a distinguished visitor: U.S. Ambassador to France James Gavin, better known locally as deputy commander of Matt Ridgway's hard-nosed 82nd Airborne Division, which liberated the little town of 1,261 to screen the Allied beachhead during the Normandy landings of 1944. Said the ambassador as he clambered out of his official Cadillac last week for a nostalgic slog toward the sea: "I wouldn't have recognized anything in a car. Last time I used this road...
...only one leaping is the speaker, Charlie Carmody, playing host at what he perversely insists is his 82nd birthday party-though he is really 81. Father Hugh Kennedy is hanging back for fear the rest of the party will regard him with the dead-cold eye of the Boston cod. Father Kennedy has been an alcoholic, and though it is five years since he last drank, everyone holds his breath until the errant priest refuses a proffered sherry. Between them, Charlie Carmody and Father Kennedy divide The Edge of Sadness, but do not dominate it. In his first book since...
...strung across Pacific outposts are the ready Marines, many of them veterans of Korean fighting and of crisis moves in Quemoy and Lebanon. The crack Seventh Army, massed 150,000 strong in Europe, keeps a cool watch on Berlin and provides the shield for NATO; the Korea-trained 82nd Airborne Division is at Fort Bragg, N.C., ready for the next call...
Mary I. Bunting officially Radcliffe's 82nd year in "formal" Opening Exercises yesterday before a larger-than-usual at the First Congregational . In her first address to this gathering, President declared for the changing concept for women "will have immediate significance in our colleges universities...