Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africa, Sicily and Italy, celebrated Christmas Day in a New York hospital, recuperating from the leg wound he got at Salerno (this was his first Christmas in his own country in ten years). But I guess the TIME & LIFE people an American Christmas meant most to this year were Carl and Shelley Mydans-back in the U.S via the Gripsholm after two years as prisoners of the Japs...
South Carolina-born Editor Boyd studied at Duke University, got a doctorate at Franklin & Marshall. He is a distinguished younger U.S. historian, has collaborated with such able writers as Franklin biographer Carl Van Doren and the University of Pennsylvania's Roy Franklin Nichols. With hobbies running from gardening to handsetting type, Boyd shares some of Jefferson's own tastes. Among topics of lasting interest treated with passion and discrimination in the writings of the great Virginian: politics, government, history, art, science, literature, agriculture, music, architecture, education, mathematics, business, newspapers, wine-drinking...
Lieut. General Carl Spaatz will lead "the entire American strategic bombing force operating against Germany." This decision officially put the air attack on a single sky front. It meant that both the U.S. Eighth Air Force, striking from Britain, and the U.S. Fifteenth, flying from the Mediterranean, would synchronize their blows. Up to now the R.A.F.'s strategic bomber force has been based largely in Britain, hence may require no inter-theater commander. Apparently, the U.S. Army Air Forces were to continue and increase strategic bombings from both British and Mediterranean bases...
Mark Wayne Clark, Brehon B. Somer-vell, Joseph W. Stilwell, Joseph T. Mc-Narney, Ira C. Eaker, Carl Spaatz, Millard F. Harmon, Omar Nelson Bradley, Robert L. Eichelberger, George C. Kenney and Jap-imprisoned Jonathan M. Wainwright. Also held up were the promotions of two major generals: Thomas T. Handy and Walter B. Smith...
Greeting. In Springfield, Mass., Carl Lagerstrom met an old friend, shook hands so vigorously that he got a compound fracture, developed an infection, died...