Word: captain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood. Though 50,000 people gathered in the forum to hear speeches, they were mostly Moslems, whom the French soldiers can mobilize for shows with quiet efficiency. "Shout ' Algerie Franfaise!'" cried an officer from a psychological-warfare unit, but he got only feeble response. Behind him a captain rattled off a steady stream of orders to his men scattered through the audience. "Phantom Two to Phantom: when the speaker shouts 'Algerie,' you shout 'Franfaise!' Shout! Shout! Don't just stand there like sticks of asparagus...
Born in Nova Scotia, the son of a clergyman, Dean Simpson came to the U.S. in 1927. An Anglican priest since 1921, he had been a World War I Canadian Army captain and a Canadian Rhodes scholar at Oxford (Christ Church). As an assistant professor at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, Dr. Simpson became a U.S. citizen in 1937 ("I cast my first vote for La Guardia") and a distinguished Biblical scholar (The Early Traditions of Israel). In 1954 Oxford called him back to be regius professor of Hebrew and one of Christ Church's five canons. There...
...Drake's wake came Captain Anthony F. Lucas, an Austrian immigrant with a vague theory that oil is locked under salt domes. He started drilling near Beaumont, Texas and in 1901 struck Spindletop. Within weeks, oilmen there struck no less than six gushers that could produce more oil than the rest of the world combined. More money was lost than gained in the ensuing land rush, but Spindletop spouted 50 million bbl.. spawned three great oil-producing companies: Humble, Texas...
...Captain-elect Tim Gallwey, Bowditch, Vinton and Jorge Lemann--two to five this year--form an impressive nucleus for the 1960 squad. Although Gallwey was playing ahead of him at the end of the year, Bowditch's victory in the New England's may well have established him as next year's number one. As for the two gaps in the top six, the most likely candidates to fill them are freshmen Joram Piatigorsky and Mark Woodbury and sophomores Bob Schwartzman and Pete Smith...
...Captain Ned Weld, playing at number one, scored outstanding victories over M.I.T.'s Raul Karman and Dartmouth's Dick Hoehn. Weld turned in an amazing job for someone who never played higher than number three on his freshman team...