Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the resurgent Chinese armies (U.S.-trained, U.S.-supplied, U.S.-supported) was the cool, clear organizing and strategic brain of a tall, tactful American, the commander of all the U.S. forces in China and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff-Lieut. General Albert Coady Wedemeyer. He was the youngest (48) of U.S. theater commanders and one of the least known to the U.S. public. But all of his past now seems like a long (sometimes circuitous) march toward his predestined task in China...
...performance in Sanders Theatre by the Harvard Dramatic Club of "Much Ado About Nothing" last week marks a step in the right direction, and it is to be ardently hoped that the comparatively small and cool audiences will not discourage the Club from undertaking more of Shakespeare's plays...
...July the ist landed in Sicily. With the now much-decorated 3rd on its left and the 45th on its right, it smashed the Hermann Goring Division. All three became model outfits-professional, resourceful, cool. But so far as the ist was concerned, it was "The Division...
Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz was found to have failed on one job: he did not instill his own qualities of cool calm-under-fire into his grey schnauzer pup, Mak-who heard Guam antiaircraft batteries open up in practice firing near the beach where the Admiral was swimming, took to the hills, was listed as missing...
...greatest wartime casualty." Died. ThomasMontgomery Howell, 63, tiny, bigtime fisherman and Wall Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain pit"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1931, Iowa-born Trader Howell manipu lated a squeeze on the Chicago market, grabbed 70% of all visible corn, made himself a cool million, got temporarily suspended. In 1934, Angler Howell reeled in a 956-lb. tuna to cop the world's record. Of his fishing-& -trading methods he once observed: "I go along, ask no quarter, and doIt't give any." Died. Achmed Abdullah, 64, bemono-cled fictioneer `Who gathered material...