Word: conways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recheck of the facts proves TIME correct. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Pershing are the only permanent generals in U. S. history. Tasker Howard Bliss and Peyton Conway March served as temporary generals during the World War, were created full generals on the retired list by an act of Congress in 1930. Charles Pelot Summerall and Douglas MacArthur held the courtesy rank of general while acting as chiefs of staff. Present Chief of Staff General Malin Craig will drop back to his regular rank of major general when his term is up. According to War Department records, George Washington, although General...
Saratoga was practically complete when its star died last month of cerebral edema. For the few remaining sequences, mostly in the middle of the picture, director Jack Conway used longshots of a double so adroitly that cinemaddicts are not likely to detect Miss Harlow's absence. Good shots: the flamingos at Miami's Hialeah Park; Duke Bradley's assistant (Cliff Edwards) singing a race-track ballad "The Horse with the Dreamy Eyes," in a crowded car on the track special from Maryland; Bradley making book...
...sight as 200 of Miss Harlow's friends, relatives and colleagues gathered at the Wee Kirk, whose nave had been converted into a scented bower by $15,000 worth of flowers. Clark Gable,* Miss Harlow's Business Manager Edward J. Mannix, MGM Producer Hunt Stromberg, Director Jack Conway, Cameraman Ray June, Director William S. Van Dyke were pallbearers. Jeanette MacDonald sang Indian Love Call. Nelson Eddy sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. A Christian Science reader-practitioner named Mrs. Genevieve Smith, longtime friend of Miss Harlow, read from the Psalms and from Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy...
...Crimson hurler allowed the enemy only four scattered hits, fanning eight, while his teammates were pounding the offerings of two Penn twirlers, George Jeffers and John Conway, for seven blows...
...Trainer Conway, last week's victory was the reward of an extraordinary campaign of which the purpose was not so much to turn War Admiral into the best race horse in the U. S. as to turn him into a horse healthy and hale enough to race at all. As a two-year-old, War Admiral last year won three races, finished second twice, third once. Offsetting his speed and good blood he had one dangerous defect: he was delicate. Last winter, instead of growing as a two-year-old should, he showed signs of remaining the same size...