Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace him, Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington chose Spaatz's second in command, General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, 49. A favored nephew of Michigan's influential senior senator, Gen. Vandenberg rates as an able, affable officer, long on administrative ability, short on personal force...
...once, even the critics agreed. Last week 17 out of 21 Broadway reviewers voted Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire the best new play of the season. Mister Roberts got two votes, Command Decision and Medea one each. The critics then picked Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy as the best foreign play to reach Broadway this season. Neither playwright was on hand to take a bow: Rattigan was home in England; Williams, whose Glass Menagerie had won the prize in 1944-45, was vacationing in Italy...
...high command meeting this afternoon will determine most of the schedules for the competition, which may decide the Straus Trophy winner...
...death in 1911, the empire has been ruled by stocky Frank Baldwin (the Alexanders are no longer active in the management). Frank is training his own son, Asa, 40, to carry on. Last week, Asa moved into the new company as his father's second in command...
...Christopher, never batting an eye, "As Your Royal Highness pleases." The guests were convulsed. The prince had made a wonderful comic discovery and, "having enjoyed the great game of sousing Christopher once, he wanted to have it, in the touching way of infancy, 'again.' Well, royalty can command, and he had it again, he had it unnumbered times, he had it to the very...