Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: i) Iowa's Hanford MacNider, former head of the American Legion and a combat brigadier general (and D.S.C. winner) in World War II, loyal Taftman in the primary campaign; 2) New Mexico's Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War (1929-33) and thrice-defeated candidate for U.S. Senator...
Cannon worked on almost every New York daily, first made a name as a columnist with "Sergeant Cannon Says," a column of eloquent, olive-drab barracks talk written for the now defunct PM while he was a G.I. Later, Stars & Stripes made him a combat correspondent in Europe. At war's end he joined the Post to write sports, did a stint as a war correspondent in Korea. When he saw the Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins at the front, Cannon remarked: "Meeting Maggie at the front for the first time is like meeting Brenda Frazier...
...full of opinions and hard-eyed writing on everything from sports and stuffed shirts to women and war. "Any man is in difficulty," writes Bachelor Cannon, "if he falls in love with a woman he can't knock down with the first punch." After Korea, he reported that "combat soldiers are the loneliest people in the world. What a man does in a period of war he carries around inside of him forever." When Herman Hickman, Yale's 300-lb. football coach resigned, Cannon began a column: "There is enough room in one of Herman Hickman...
...American way to combat the argument of someone with whom we disagree is not to suppress the utterance of another person's opinion, but to disprove it. It the long years wrich have followed the Civil War, the race against which this film discriminates has produced a more than ample record of equal and responsible citizenship...
Steel Helmets. The occasion seemed harmless: since SS troops are not eligible for veterans' pensions, two former generals of SS combat divisions had formed an SS old soldiers society; last week they held a rally in Verden's soccer stadium. From all over Germany, even from South America, came more than 5,000 delegates. Welcomed by the Bur germeister, the SSmen made merry in Verden's beer gardens...