Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salty cavalryman who had fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee near the Cheyenne River, where in 1890 the Sioux made their last stand. McCloy went to France as Preston's operations officer in the 160th Field Artillery Brigade. Years later, Preston told another officer why he had chosen McCloy as staff aide. "One day at Fort Ethan Allen, I walked behind him after he had been riding. I could see blood all over his pants. I said to myself, any man who could keep riding with that much pain must be a damn good officer...
...Fort Riley, Kans., in 1942, Delbert Eugene Hill was a professional entertainer in the U.S., billed as "America's Only Lady Magician." The Army put him in Special Services Division, shipped him off to England to amuse the Air Force. He did so well that he was once chosen to take part in a command performance before Queen Mary. By V-E day, he had become manager of the Burtonwood Air Base theater. Out of the blue, he received a reclassification notice; his new job was cleaning latrines...
...three winners, chosen by a faculty committee headed by Payson S. Wild, Jr. '30, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...heir to the throne, Elizabeth will continue to carry the heavy share of chairmanships, launchings and dedications. By day, Margaret will have plenty of time to entertain girl friends at gossip fests in her rooms at the palace. Of an evening, she may go with a few carefully chosen girls and young men to the theater and a nightclub. The one thing she must not do is act like a commoner...
...City College. She later became an assistant professor at Brooklyn College and last year won a Pulitzer Prize for a scholarly biography, Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow. Last week, at 39, pretty, petite Historian Clapp won Wellesley's top honor: out of 150 candidates, she was chosen the college's eighth president...