Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First to the Sea? In front of East Prussia and of Warsaw to the south, the Germans had four main bastions: Kaunas and Grodno on the Niemen River, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. Brilliant young General Ivan Chernyakovsky reached the Niemen on a 75-mile front, forced several crossings, established bridgeheads on the west bank, attacked Grodno. Early this week his army was joined there by that of General Georg Zakharov, and Grodno fell...
Beatrice Lillie, Britain's brittle, brilliant No. 1 musicomedienne, working harder than ever at entertaining soldiers since the 1942 death in Far East action of her 20-year-old son, Sir Robert Peel, was signed by Broadway's Billy Rose to make her first U.S. appearance in five years. She will star with Comedian Bert Lahr in Rose's Seven Lively Arts, to open in December...
...successfully is that he loves people and, for all his quirks and foibles, is at base a very average little man himself. He understands G.I. hopes and fears and gripes and fun and duty-born courage because he shares them as no exceptionally fearless or exceptionally brilliant man ever could. What chiefly distinguishes him from other average men is the fact that he is a seasoned, expert newsman. 'His dispatches sound as artless as a letter, but other professionals are not deceived. They know that Ernie Pyle is a great reporter. Young would-be journalists could search...
Most generals, he says, kill themselves with detail work; as for Monty himself, he always "works on the chief of staff." The operational planning brain of his "first eleven" is his present chief of staff, little-known, nervous, brilliant, squeaky-voiced Major General Francis Wilfred ("Freddie") de Guingand. Freddie handles Monty's Intelligence and operations. Personnel and supply problems go to Major General Miles William Arthur Peel Graham, who has virtually revolutionized British Army supply methods. Both men are with him now in Normandy...
...great journalists of our times" has written one of the most important books about U.S. labor. Benjamin Stolberg's Tailor's Progress is a history of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (I.L.G. W.U.-membership: 310,000), a keen commentary on U.S. social politics, a detailed, sometimes brilliant biography of an outstanding social politician, I.L.G.W.U.'s President David Dubinsky...