Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gown. Schuichi Kusaka was born in Osaka, left Japan when he was four, got his elementary education in Vancouver schools. He made a brilliant record at the Universities of British Columbia and California, M.I.T. and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study (TIME, Aug. 9), was recommended to Smith by a Chinese physicist, Miss Chien Shiung Wu. In perfect English, Kusaka declared his opposition to the Emperor of Japan but, as shy as he was able, preferred not to enter the controversy. The staid Springfield Republican, said: "Come, let us be reasonable. The protest was . . . injudicious. . . .Tolerance . . . will...
...Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky, captor of Sevsk. This blue-eyed, blond giant is one of the Red Army's most brilliant field commanders and leading candidate for a marshal's baton (TIME, Aug. 23). His greatest personal triumph was also the greatest victory thus far in World War II: the capture of Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus and 330,000 Nazis at Stalingrad...
...commander in chief. During actual combat there is constant liaison between G-3 and the "agents for conducting battle." Explains Rooks's deputy British Brigadier C. S. Sugden: "We continually discuss our problems just to make sure we're fighting the same battle." Sugden is a brilliant, spectacular, fantastically tall, long-nosed Briton who messes with twelve Americans and regularly complains : "I'm picking up all their bloody habits...
Young (38), straw-haired Lord Burghley should fit the office well. He is a scion of the brilliant house of Cecil, which has furnished Britain with some of its most distinguished statesmen and soldiers. His father is the Marquess of Exeter; from him some day Lord Burghley will inherit enormous estates in Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire. His wife is a sister of the Duchess of Gloucester. Lord Burghley looks like someone disguised as a handsome, sporting Englishman, but his is no masquerade...
...Jacques Cesaire Jeffre, welcomed a tumultuous crowd that had assembled on May 13, 1917 to greet him. After having received the Doctor of Laws in Sanders Theatre Jeffre went to the Stadium where an hysterical crowd of 30,000 people had gathered to see the famous general. Following a brilliant review of the Harvard ROTC, the Marshal was heard to whisper a brief but sincere enlogy, "C'est magnifique...