Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loretta Young had quite a time in London. She curtsied to the Queen at a command performance; she saw the city's patched-up ruins; she thought it simply wonderful how plucky the British were in their gloom-bound island. When she got safely home to California, she poured out her impressions to sympathetic Gene Handsaker, an A.P. feature writer, who set it all down in heart-throbbing prose. Sample quotes...
...officers and men of General Fu Tso-yi's command are among the best in China. Fifteen months ago, Fu's crack troops swept the Reds out of the vital North China outpost city of Kalgan. They turned with high morale to rebuilding the destruction left by the retreating Communists. But elsewhere in China, the war had gone badly. General Fu and some of his men had been called east to defend the Peiping area, thus reducing the defenses of Kalgan. In the outpost city a fortnight ago, a TIME correspondent found a solemn mood...
...lesser charges were thrown out, but the court would have no truck with the nature-over-science argument. Stiffly it found that radar was only "an additional aid to navigation." Littler's sword now pointed directly at him: "Guilty." He was removed from his command, reprimanded. Said a brother officer: "Johnny's had his chips...
...years ago and could make a fair claim to being its inventor, he and his compositions had been almost forgotten, even by the jazzophiles. Jimmy had never tried to remind them. He had hit the big time before he was 15, playing the Orpheum circuit, and even a command performance before Britain's King & Queen. Then he got interested in baseball, spent his days playing with the Chicago Ail-Americans and his nights playing piano in the city's brass-spittooned bars, sometimes for drinks, sometimes for money. Gradually, he evolved his rolling bass, and taught what...
...signs remain of the old days of Castle Corners. The grandfather clock in the main hall still reminds one that the President's office next door was once a drawing room. The white-painted rooms are broad and still luxurious, and the landings of the stair case command a fine view of the Yard that used to be a henyard. But Fay House is a house with a present as well as a past. The sign on the third floor has a commanding message for today's Radcliffe girl. In soliciting funds for the College's 70th anniversary, it says...