Word: beached
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Earning his passport, Craig served well as a divisional staff officer (G3) with the 80th Infantry Division, which landed on Utah Beach and was in combat for 239 days in Europe in 1944-45. With the 80th Craig picked up administrative experience under heavy pressure, learned to shave with toilet soap (which he still uses instead of shaving cream), and made an important acquaintance. One day, when General Dwight Eisenhower visited the division's headquarters in the basement of a brick school building in the Saar, Major Craig was assigned to brief the general on the division...
...Jersey's most eligible bachelor, Democratic Governor Robert Meyner, 46, was vacationing in Delray Beach, Fla. as a house guest of retired Major General Edward C. Rose, former head of New Jersey's department of defense. No nightclubber, Meyner preferred fresh air and sunshine, avoided the wiles of scheming husband-huntresses by bypassing their lairs, spent much time on tennis courts with a purposeful eye on the ball...
...Greta Garbo's smash box-office comeback in 19-year-old Camille is breaking all records at New York's Normandie Theater and is also doing well in Miami Beach and Philadelphia. Impressed by the Swedish recluse's powerful draw, M-G-M has had the film withdrawn from the free museum circuit and is considering a nationwide release...
...last week more than 70 wells were already in operation or being drilled in Crawford's new field. Crawford himself, though he had ten producing wells and was drilling four more, had more important things to do than stay around Huntington Beach. On his 24th birthday, a month ago, he brought in a gusher seven miles to the north, is now developing what he thinks is an even bigger field...
Died. William Bingham II, 75, Cleveland-born philanthropist, famed for his efforts to improve rural medical facilities throughout the New England area; in Miami Beach. In the 1920s and '30s Bingham gave away $3,000,000, much of it for the organization and support of the Bingham Associates Fund and Boston's Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Hospital to make metropolitan medical facilities available to country doctors...