Word: blackshear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appointment of the week: Lieut. General Blackshear Morrison Bryan Jr., 54, to succeed Major General Frederick A. Irving in September as the 43rd superintendent of West Point. A strapping Louisianan, "Babe" Bryan is a West Pointer (class of '22, and twice an Army football coach) was the tough but fair assistant provost marshall in charge of all P.W. camps in the U.S. during World...
...posed a painful problem. The U.N. had no way of knowing how many of the 3,404 men really were alive and in Red hands. It could not submit to blackmail, but neither could it callously write off the missing men. Said the senior U.N. armistice commissioner, Major General Blackshear Bryan: "The Communists have got to give us an accounting of them-or else." But nobody in the U.N. command seemed to know what the "or else" could possibly...
Major General Blackshear M. Bryan Jr., 51, commander of 24th Division: West Point, 1922; well-known as a football coach at West Point in the '203; general staff officer in Washington, 1941; provost marshal general, 1945; chief of staff under Ridgway, Caribbean command...