Word: archibald
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...last week's ornamental banquet, presided over by CBS's silver-haired Standby Elmer Davis, two debts were implicitly acknowledged. One acknowledgment came from the Administration to the men who had made the urgent plight of Britain palpable to millions. Said Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish to Ed Murrow: "You have destroyed . . . the superstition that what is done beyond 3,000 miles of water is not realty done...
...emergency underground studio arrived Expert No. 1: wild-haired Professor Julian Huxley, fresh from the Zoo, where he had been seeing to the safety of tigers. Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack. Expert No. 3, Commander Archibald Bruce Campbell (retired), glared red-faced at his high-brow colleagues. The first question, propounded by elegant Humorist William Donald McCullough, was "What are the Seven Wonders of the World?" Nobody knew...
General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell said these words last week just as two great new battles-in Russia and in Libya -reached an ugly pitch. The world had its eyes on those battles, but cautious "Archie" Wavell, whose forte is general strategy, could see the battles in their true perspective...
...Christmas Day, announced his own replacement as Chief of Staff by General Sir Alan Francis ("Wizard") Brooke, 58, Commander in Chief of Home Forces and mechanized-warfare specialist. But popular Wizard Brooke will also reach retirement age in 20 months. Named Vice Chief was the ranker, Major General Archibald Nye, who is only...
...himself, lost caste in his own eyes. Nothing he admitted to the Indian Council of State is likely to change Winston Churchill's or the War Office's opinion of him. Nevertheless, his admission will probably be accepted by history as true. For that, history-loving Sir Archibald Percival Wavell will be mostly responsible...