Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under Major General Robert S. Beightler on the left, and the 40th under Major General Rapp Brush on the right. With its flank protected by the Buckeyes, the 40th rolled into Clark Field in time for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to announce its capture on his 65th birthday. With more than a dozen runways, Clark was the greatest air base in the Southwest Pacific. The Japanese had fortified 30 caves for its defense, yet they abandoned these, and confined their resistance to artillery fire from other caves in nearby hills. There were only sharp local actions, in which...
...trip to court. This time she will ask a formal separation from her nightclub-brawling, ex-Army-lieutenant husband, Pat di Cicco, 35, actors' agent. Married at 17, Gloria once observed: "What can one say of a first marriage except that it's wonderful?" Approaching her 21st birthday and a $4.5 million inheritance, she broke the news to Di Cicco by Manhattan-to-Hollywood telephone. Then she plunged with new determination into her painting career, in preparation for a one-woman show of still lifes...
Slower & Surer. G.I.s of the Sixth Army, fighting south from Lingayen toward the captive capital of the Philippines, hoped to give Manila to MacArthur and Krueger as a joint birthday present this week. (On Jan. 26 MacArthur will be 65, Krueger 64.) But the G.I.s probably were in too much of a hurry. Methodical, plodding Krueger was in a hurry, but not too much. He did not believe in capturing territory in haste, only to lose it at the enemy's leisure. Strategically, he was out on the end of a limb-a tenuous supply line, 950 miles long...
Died. Mrs. Anne Ide Cockran, 68, longtime sharer of Robert Louis Stevenson's birthday; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1891, ailing, child-loving Author Stevenson learned from the U.S. Land Commissioner on Samoa, Henry Clay Ide, that because his daughter Anne was born on Christmas, she never got any birthday presents. Stevenson formally deeded his birthday (Nov. 13) to the child, stipulated that she celebrate the occasion "by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verse . . .", or forfeit,the anniversary rights to the President...
General Peyton Conway March, wrinkled, spade-bearded, soldier-straight, World War I U.S. Chief of Staff, who said on his 79th birthday last year that an Allied victory in Europe in 1944 was "not in the cards," reached 80 and sounded off again. "There is no escaping the fact that the situation [Rundstedt's attack] is very serious. . . . Our intelligence service broke down completely. They appear to have been unaware of a German force of 200,000 men. . . . Imagine the population of Richmond [200,000] being assembled across the Potomac and we not knowing about it." Asked to predict...