Word: captain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During my recent tour of duty as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Department I spent about 15 months in Wiesbaden, where Miss Rosenberger was my secretary. Orphaned by the war, she fled Breslau before the Russians and made her way on bicycle and afoot to Wiesbaden where, in 1945, she went to work for the Americans. There she is today, a DP among her own people...
...further than the immediate foreseeable future." Later, he went to the White House to assure President Truman of his loyalty. "We had a nice chat," reported Congressman Roosevelt. "I told him there was no question that I was a member of ... the team of which he was captain and quarterback." A reporter wanted to know if he felt at home in the White House. "Yes-if you mean being with President Truman," said Roosevelt, carefully. He had once calculated, he said, that during all the time his father was President he had spent only three weeks, two days...
Congress made no educational provision at all for nine-year-old Grafton Dulany Hanson, the first Capitol page, who was appointed during Jackson's Administration by both Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. After the Civil War, a bewhiskered, one-armed tyrant, remembered only as "Captain White," was enthroned over the pages. Captain White had a singular outlook on education: martial spirit, he felt, was everything. So he marched the pages around & around the House cloakrooms in close-order drill until they were dead tired and fighting mad.* After Captain White's time, a loose system of private tutoring...
Recipient of the Henry Russell Shaw Fellowship is Daniel B. Ray '49 of Brooklyn, N. Y. Second Marshal of his class, Ray graduated in February from Harvard College with highest honors in mathematics. While an undergraduate he was captain of the Varsity wrestling team, and a member of the Band and Glee Club. This Fellowship provides for European travel...
...Captain Wally Coulson was off for New London last night in his yawl "Kanige." He sailed at eight p.m. with his father and mother, delaying only long enough to pick up the Wendell bat for the year's best work at the plate...