Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles west of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. other provost officers, aided by Mounties, were staging another manhunt. In two cars and a truck they drove to the road's end at the foot of lonely Gros Cap hill. Then they trudged on snowshoes up the steep hill to a well-hidden, log-and-tar-paper shanty at the top. Outside, the officers pounced on five unshaven, bedraggled youths. Inside they found seven more, plus large stores of butter, canned goods, milk, cigarets, coffee, bread...
Mitscher, the wizened little man in the baseball cap, was now flying his flag on the reborn Yorktown. (Soon it would have the three stars of a vice admiral.) Oliver Jensen, after a tour of duty in the Atlantic chasing submarines, went aboard to put together the story of how the U.S. carrier fleet, puny and crippled in 1942, had become the most mobile and most lethal weapon of 20th-century warfare...
Malta to Yalta. For his second conference of the Big Three and his ninth with Winston Churchill, the President departed from Washington shortly after his Jan. 20 inauguration. He appeared at Malta on Feb. 2 on a bright and spotless U.S. battleship. He was wearing an old-fashioned tweed cap...
...sense of humor about his total baldness. Once, when he commanded the 30th Division, he ordered all his officers to get strict ¾-inch haircuts."Look," he said, snatching off his cap, "I wouldn't order you to do anything I wouldn't do myself." As a young officer, Simpson served the usual tours of duty- Mexican border, Texas, the Philippines. He fought in World War I, was awarded the D.S.M., the Sil ver Star, the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de guerre. In 1925 he was graduated with distinction from the Command and General Staff...
...year-old Malraux, who was once punch-drunk with politics, is now soberly concentrating on military matters: "I cannot see why we French must be so occupied with politics while the Germans are still on French soil." Marlene Dietrich, wearing a fleece-lined, ear-muffed pilot's cap, paused in her U.S.O. tour of Belgium, braced herself for the usual souvenir-snatching. To A.P. War Photographer Peter Carroll, she said: "The airborne boys . . . asked for my garters. What do you want . . . my scanties?" Said practical Photographer Carroll: "No thanks, but I sure could use that cap. . . ." He explained...