Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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* "Striking" equals "bucking" (Army) or "snapping in" (Marine Corps), i.e.. trying for a higher rank or rating.
Standish started the second intramural series with two conquests this week. Wednesday the Freshmen defeated Company D, 33 to 30. Although Standish lacks height, especially since George Appel has left for the Air Corps, the team shows good spirit, and improving teamwork. Dave Firth piled up 20 points against Company...
Leading the armored pack when Montgomery chased Rommel, the Desert Fox, out of Africa was hard-riding Herbert Lumsden, commander of the X Corps. A lieutenant general at the age of 45, he was accounted one of Britain's most brilliant young commanders.
William Averell Harriman, rich, sports-loving U. S. Ambassador to Russia, finished second in a Moscow diplomatic corps competition: his hens laid fewer eggs than British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr's.
Colonel O'Laughlin (a reserve rank) covered St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) for the Associated Press in 1904, and subsequently was used by Theodore Roosevelt as a go-between with the Russians in arranging the Russo-Japanese peace. For two months in 1909, he was Teddy's first assistant...