Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American group. The next higher formation is ... another group, a British one commanded by a British air commodore. This commander in turn is under another British officer, Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, head of the Tactical Air Force in Northwest Africa. Marshal Coningham is under American Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, who is under British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W. Tedder, who in turn is responsible to American General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
MUTINY IN JANUARY - Carl Van Doren - Viking ($3.50). On a January morn ing in 1781, Brigadier General Anthony Wayne wrote desperately to George Washington, informing him of "a mutiny that for a week threatened the Americans with the violent collapse of their whole army and the loss of their prospects of independence." The mutineers (from the Pennsylvania Line regiments, stationed under Wayne at Morristown, NJ.) rebelled at their lack of pay, food, decent clothing. British General Sir Henry Clinton hoped to persuade the malcontents to join him in Manhattan. The full story of the spying and intrigue is told...
...speaker was Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, U.S. commander of Allied Air Forces in Northwest Africa. He was explaining an exercise in war and semantics -the movement of his forces from the realm of "superiority" to that of "supremacy." This had been achieved by the three arms of his command...
John Potter and Gus Merwin, one and six, were on the Freshman crew, Carl Seligman at stroke was a J.V. rower, and Dick Hunneman, seven, who rounds out the boat, is a Freshman from Browne and Nichols...
...frayed and yellow manuscripts were written in a beautiful 18th-Century hand, and each bore the name of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Koldofsky bought the manuscripts and started a six-year search through musical libraries. He found that the manuscripts were not in C. P. E.'s own handwriting. Seven turned out to be copies of concertos by C. P. E. already listed or known to exist in European collections. The other seven, so far as Koldofsky has been able to discover, are new to the musical world. Since all the scripts are in the same handwriting...