Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest, write a short book on the war's last year. Commencing work at 6 a.m., teaching classes in an authoritative, no-nonsense fashion in the afternoon and writing more history at night, Mathematician-Historian Williams began to produce something far different-an orderly, exhaustive study of Northern command: Lincoln Finds a General. With two volumes out, the work was assessed as potentially "the soundest military history of the North yet written," earned similar high praise with succeeding volumes (the sixth and last is already outlined...
...scholar instead of a treasure hunter, he painstakingly collected and fitted together pottery fragments scorned by some earlier diggers, succeeded in bringing a large measure of order to the history of Palestine in the 3,000 years before Christ. Among his qualifications for archaeology: great physical durability and a command of some 25 languages, including enough man-in-the-oasis Arabic to keep his workers in line. Albright was in the U.S. when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, but photographs were airmailed to him, and he was the first scholar outside the Holy Land to verify their...
Sometimes a virus enters a cell and makes it multiply over and over, even if its unruly growth kills the animal of which the cell is a part. Several kinds of animal cancer are caused by such viruses, whose DNA presumably takes command and makes the cells multiply wildly...
...ailing brother of the late founder of the 261-store S. H. Kress & Co. five-and-ten chain, was replaced as chairman by New Jersey Construction Executive Paul L. Troast,* a leader in the revolt of Kress Foundation directors that stripped Rush Kress of power (TIME, March 3). Command of the slipping company (sales slid from $176 million in 1952 to $159 million last year) will be shared by Troast, recently named President George L. Cobb and Executive Committee Chairman Frank M. Folsom. Their plan: sell off some of the chain's stores to raise cash for expansion, then...
...about three inches torn from the left shoulder of his coat, by a ball from the enemy." General Sherman made him a lieutenant colonel and assistant provost marshal of Memphis, where, even in 1862, blockaded cotton was being feverishly and profitably traded to Northern mills. At Lincoln's command, Littlefield later organized one of the first Negro regiments. By war's end. General Littlefield's character, as well as his uniform, was still nearly "as immaculate...