Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foyle); of a cerebral thrombosis after a long illness; in Roslyn Heights, N.Y. Twice editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1937, 1948), authority on Joseph Conrad, Kit Morley also delighted in daffy verse, wrote LIFE'S editor on a Battle of Britain story (1941) in which the battlefield 80 miles long, 38 wide and from five to six high was described as a "cube...
Peace came at last to the briefcase battlefield that for two months was strewn with recriminations from the Army and the Army National Guard. The dispute, sparked by the Army's insistence on a six-month training program for all National Guard recruits and the Guard's opposition to the plan (TIME, Feb. 11-18), ended in an armistice worked out with the mediating hand of Chairman Overton Brooks of a House Armed Services subcommittee. The treaty-or, as Louisiana's Brooks called it, a "memorandum of understanding"-permits the Guard to set up an eleven-week...
South from the Battlefield. Feet on his desk, Charlie Wilson laughed delightedly when he read newspaper accounts of his wife's defense and the echoing uproar. But he seemed to feel no need for defenders. Good-naturedly but firmly, he held his ground, conceding only that his language was "a little tough" and that he never meant to cast "any reflection on the individual young men who joined the National Guard during the Korean conflict." He kept right on plugging the six-months-training directive, pointing out that "more than 80% of the National Guard today...
...week's end Charlie Wilson retired from the battlefield for a while. He and Jessie joined the boss aboard the presidential plane, Columbine III, for a trip south. Ike was heading for a Georgia golf weekend, the Wilsons for a two-week Florida vacation. Asked why he was accompanying the President, Wilson replied: "I was invited along." Jessie Wilson smiled amiably, this time said nothing...
Army in World War I at 16, two years later won a battlefield commission in France to become the A.E.F.'s youngest second lieutenant. Later he turned to newspapering ("I needed hot cakes"), wound up covering the Spanish civil war for the Detroit News. In World War II, as a major in the Army historical section, he went to the Pacific to cover the invasion of Makin Island in 1943. At first he used the conventional approach: copying high-level records, talking to the brass, touring the front. He learned little. Even on the battlefield, fable was rapidly substituted...