Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy (Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigues; with Ralph Richardson (TIME, April...
Divorced. Arnold Nelson Welles, 31, socialite son of Author-Diplomat Sumner Welles; by Adele Harman Welles, 30; after seven years of marriage, two sons; in Reno...
...remembered war," says George McMillan, onetime technical sergeant in the 1st Marine Division, "is sometimes very different from the fought war." In The Old Breed, his division's remembrance book, Author McMillan lets his facts about fighting fall where they may, gives the full treatment to the asides. In the process he achieves one of the most readable of the 100-odd unit histories of World War II already published...
...Please pass the butter.' You DO NOT say, 'Throw down the grease ...' If, while dining at a friend's house you wish more dessert, merely stare at your empty plate until someone catches on. DO NOT say, 'How about seconds on the slop?' " Author McMillan refrains from printing "Personal Manners" instructions on addressing live young white women...
Unlike men of many other U.S. outfits from Manila to Berlin, the marines took the peace in their stride: no mass meetings, no whimperings to be sent home. Proud Author McMillan tells what made "the old breed" different: "The men of the 1st Marine Division stood steady at their tasks, welded together in what seemed then a dignified silence by the same pervasive sense of discipline and of duty that had been the division's most evident characteristic...