Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earle Edgerton, handicapped by a slim physique, nonetheless took firm command of Falstaff and played an admirable complement to Gervasi's Hal--lying, bluffing, and buffooning with gusto and expertise. Arthur Waldstein sparkled suprisingly in the small role of Poins. Marguerite Tarrant, as the Hostess, played an uproarious game of pinch-bottom with Edgerton...
Candidate Garcia himself was at a command post five miles away playing chess with his military aide, broke off the game briefly to intervene when he feared that his floor handlers might ineptly let the first ballot be taken Sunday morning instead of Saturday night. Warned experienced Old Pol Garcia: "You can never tell what will happen during twelve dark hours...
...Warning), a 3,000-mile electronic tripwire, was switched on; for the first time, Canada and the U.S. could feel reasonably secure against a Pearl Harbor attack from the north. At the same time, Washington and Ottawa announced that the two nations' air forces would form a joint command (ADCANUS) for continental defense. ADCANUS will be commanded by Air Force General Earle E. Partridge at the U.S. air-defense center at Colorado Springs, Colo. Its deputy commander in chief: Air Marshal Roy Slemon, until now Canada's chief of air staff...
...executive officer of Capital Airlines, succeeding J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael, 50, who moves up to chairman of the board after ten years in the president's seat. Born in Paterson, N.J., Old Pilot Baker graduated from West Point ('30) and Harvard Business School ('41), was deputy commander of the Ninth Air Force Service Command in England during World War II, since 1953 has been in charge of all Air Force procurement and production. Capital's directors hope Baker's experience will help cure the line's financial stall (caused in some measure...
...Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman, 69, U.S.N., ret. (1947), skipper of the World War II aircraft carrier Lexington, and the last to leave her before she finally sank (May 8, 1942) in the Battle of the Coral Sea; of a heart ailment; in San Diego. A World War I submarine commander, "Ted" Sherman (no kin to his fellow admiral, the late Forrest Sherman) learned to fly at 47, took command of the Lexington in 1940. A cool leader under fire, he was a hard-hitting senior task-group commander within the Fast Carrier Task Force, in one four-month period destroyed...