Word: captain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Wilhelm Keitel, Supreme Commander of the German Armed Forces, who technically outranks even Hermann Göring. No rabid Nazi, 56-year-old General Keitel has been in the Army since he was 19, served through the last War as an artillery captain and general staff officer. After the Army purge of 1938 he emerged as its new chief...
...Robert Anthony Eden served in World War I as a captain, was decorated for valor (Military Cross), came out a Brigade Major, remained a major in the Territorials. In the Cabinet and out his chief characteristics were his impeccable clothes and his championship of meeting force with force. Early last week, just before World War II seemed sure, Major Eden put on his King's Royal Rifle Corps uniform, posed in front of a tent (see cut), hurried off to his battalion guarding London's East End docks. But before Great Britain fired its first shot and practically...
...minutes later passengers & crew solemnly buried the beast at sea, steamed south for Venezuela with the rest of the yowling cargo intact. To Lieut. Burke grateful Captain Nyhoff radioed: "Many thanks for your help...
From his trip to South American jungles in 1937 Bemelmans brings back a hilarious travelogue of rivers "as loud as the finale of Götterdammerung," of flora that looked "as if the florists had thrown the end of a Hutton wedding down the back-stairs," of one Captain Vigoroux, famed in cigaret ads. Two tales, one about a dachshund, another about a Nazi dissenter who invented a seventh-class funeral, are not only funny but belong with the best satire yet written on dictators. In a story about a cobbler who belied the old proverb, Bemelmans combines entertainment...
...blew their tops. Battling pluckily through the maelstrom panted the little (248-ton, 36-meter) coastal steamer Itacare. She was out of Sao Salvador on her regular haul to Ilhéos, Bahia. She carried 47 passengers, a crew of 19, was heavily cargoed. Skilfully had young, but seasoned Captain Carlos Oliveira skippered her to within hailing distance of Ilhéos. Another 300 yards would find her in safe harbor...