Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police and asked them please to find George. He was "mentally weak," perhaps had suffered "a nervous breakdown," they said. All they knew was that the day before his planned departure, George had said he was going to do some last-minute shopping, and before their eyes, swung aboard a U.S. Security Forces...
...crazy enough to want to transfer . . . we ought to help him." After a long siege of desk and staff jobs, named (1943) commanding general of the undersized Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific. On Jan. 26,1943, Twining's B-1 7 with 15 aboard was forced down at sea off the New Hebrides Islands. After six days on a life raft (during which Twining proved his marksmanship by shooting an albatross-for food-with his .45 automatic), all hands were rescued by a Navy patrol bomber...
...high noon of a misty grey day last week. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his staff went aboard the presidential Constellation Columbine and flew off to Berlin and the Big Four Foreign Ministers' Conference. It was the first Big Four Foreign Ministers' meeting since 1949 (see FOREIGN NEWS), and crystal-gazers did a brisk business on both sides of the Atlantic trying to predict what might come out of it. Most of them, in assessing the prospects, overlooked the kind of new strength Secretary Dulles was taking into...
...travel in which men could hurry about their business on the globe's shrinking surface at speeds close to eight miles a minute. One day last week, the same plane took off from Rome on the last leg of the now routine jet flight from Singapore to London. Aboard were 35 passengers and crewmen, including Australia's able historian of World War II, Chester Wilmot (The Struggle for Europe...
Died. Countess Dorothy (Taylor) di Frasso, 66, fun-loving international hostess; of a heart attack; in a roomette aboard a train taking her from Las Vegas, Nev. back to her Hollywood playground. Inheriting an estimated $12 million from her father, a New York leather manufacturer, she got her title with her second husband, Italy's Count Carlo di Frasso. A fervent believer in the strenuous life, she once hired prizefighters to entertain her guests! joined Cinemactor Gary Cooper on a big-game safari into the African jungle, with the late Mobster Bugsy Siegel set out in a schooner...