Word: carlson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the stew began with the usual alarms in the Hearst press and swung into the usual argument between Irene Castle McLaughlin and the city's scientists. One zealot wrote an anonymous letter to the University of Chicago's distinguished professor emeritus of physiology, Dr. Anton Julius Carlson, head of the Illinois Society for the Protection of Medical Research. The letter called him a "butcher" and said that "as surely as there are skies above, we will get you. . . . The police can't watch over you always. So, until we meet, Death." The Hearst Herald-American...
...Others: Sumner Welles's The Time for Decision; Ambassador Crew's Ten Years in Japan; Raymond Clapper's Watching the World; Eric Johnston's America Unlimited; John Carlson's Under Cover; E. B. White's One Man's Meat; Senator James Mead's Tell the Folks Back Home...
Marines' Homecoming. By week's end the peninsula battle was finished. Orote airfield, the Sumay base of Pan American Airways and pre-Pearl Harbor Marine Barracks were in U.S. hands. Crack fighters of the ist Marine Provisional Brigade (veterans of Edson's ist Raider Battalion, Carlson's 2nd and Liversedge's 3rd) had still to clean out snipers in the jungle around the airfield...
Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, gaunt, hard-bitten leader of Carlson's Marine Raiders, just back from Saipan's front line, where he was drilled in the arm and leg by Jap bullets, was visited at a San Diego hospital by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their eldest son, Colonel James Roosevelt. Said Carlson elsewhere: "I received my first Purple Heart for wounds in action during World War I, in France. If I can just keep them spaced this far apart I'll be all right...
Detur Prize books for excellence in studies to Bruce H. Allen '46, Herbert S. Allen, Jr. '45, Edward B. Burke '46, Bille C. Carlson '45, Lincoln D. Clark '46, Fred N. Fishman '46, Norman Geschwind '46, Edward S. Goldman '46, Robert A. Green '46, Wayland C. Griffith '46, Leopold H. Haimson...