Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were on the staff of LIFE (Bob Landry, John Florea, Mark Kauffman, George Strock, Hank Walker, John Dominis, Peter Stackpole, Harold Trudeau, John Wilkes). West Coast newspapers are full of Bach alumni; others are aiming the nation's TV and newsreel cameras. In World War II, 146 were combat cameramen, and four died in action. What Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge was to Shakespeare, Fremont High's spry, spectacled Clarence Bach is to news photography...
...great new boat, the Navy has picked one of its best: Commander James Butler Osborn, 41, a Missouri-born, Annapolis-trained ('41) package of controlled power, who has been on hand 18 hours a day since March rushing work on George Washington. A World War II submariner (six combat patrols), Osborn spent his postwar years earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering in three years at Annapolis and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, firing the first subborne Regulus air-breathing missiles from the U.S.S. Tunny, taking an advanced course at Newport, R.I.'s Naval War College. Last June...
...June 27 Senate primary race the party's youngest, brightest star: Territorial Senator Daniel K. Inouye, 34, a lawyer who lost his right arm and won a D.S.C. as a second lieutenant platoon leader in World War II's famed "Go For Broke" Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Agreeing to try for Hawaii's lone House of Representatives seat instead, Inouye made no bones about the reason for his decision: "It would give some elder statesmen in our party a clear field...
...deputy commander for operations, performed with dramatic efficiency during the Berlin airlift, and in 1956 brought 6,409 Hungarian refugees to the U.S. in a matter of days. Their chief fear is that MATS, now commanded by Lieut. General Tunner. is getting farther and farther away from its combat-carrying function as it steps up military passenger and cargo business, which under established Government policy should go to commercial carriers. The airlines worry that jet passenger transports will be but the first step in converting MATS' $1.2 billion fleet of aircraft into a $3 billion jet operation that will...
Alfred Chaoul Khozouri Bakhash '59 of Lowell House and Teheran has received the $500 Helen Choate Bell prize for his essay "Combat with the Sun: A Study of Wallace Stevens' 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.'" Honorable mention went to Mrs. Roberta Segal Karmel '59 of Boston for her essay "William Dean Howells and the Isolated Personality...