Word: boatner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CIVIL WAR DICTIONARY, by Mark M. Boatner III (974 pp.; Mckay; $15), suggests that arguments about the Civil War may never cease but that a lot of them are going to be settled by this book. Lieut. Colonel Boatner, onetime instructor of military history at West Point, has arranged 4,000 items in alphabetical order, among them 2,000 brief biographies of notable Civil War figures and scores of succinct action accounts from Gettysburg to mere skirmishes...
...Kelly to win their wings. Among the class of 1929 graduates: Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay; General Samuel E. Anderson, chief of the Air Materiel Command; retired Brigadier General La Verne (''Blondie") Saunders, a hero of World War II; Major General Haydon L. Boatner, the Army's Provost Marshal General; Lieut. General Roscoe Wilson, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff; the late Major General Robert F. Travis; Lieut. General Francis ("Butch") Griswold, vice chief of SAC; Lieut. General Roger Ramey (ret.), former commander of the Fifth Air Force in Japan; Lieut. General William Tunner...
...carries on Gallaudet's work. But in spite of hearing aids and microphones, teaching the deaf is still a slow and laborious process. There are still too few teachers and too few schools. The work that Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet began, says the American School's Principal Edmund Boatner, is still far from accomplished: "It does seem too bad to see how often a deaf child is left out in the cold...
Four months after the bloody prisoner of war riots on Koje Island last February, many of the worst North Korean rioters, diehard Communists all, were moved by General "Bull" Boatner to the prisoner compounds on neighboring Pongam Island. There was an ominous hint of trouble to come on Pongam recently when the P.W. command uncovered Communist plans for a mass escape attempt. Last week trouble materialized with a roar in six compounds of Pongam's enclosure No. 2, where 3,600 of the camp's 9,000 prisoners are confined...
Fifteen minutes after the battle started, it was over. Fifty-six Chinese were dead or dying, 100 others wounded. Two Americans were wounded. Already, Haydon L. Boatner was being sadly missed in Korea...