Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herwig. a 6-ft. 3-in. platoon leader of the 6th Marine Division, had distinguished himself again-this time by plunging into a burning plane and dragging three men to safety. On Guam last year the onetime All-America football player (University of California) had won the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" by leading his men in repelling three heavy Jap counterattacks, and by refusing evacuation though he was twice wounded. His own men know Bob Herwig only as an exceptional officer. They have all but forgotten what U.S. civilians would probably regard as his greatest claim to fame...
Winston Churchill, had already left London. Tired out with campaigning (see FOREIGN NEWS), he rested at Hendaye, a pleasant town and international rumor factory on the Spanish-French border. President Truman planned to cross the Atlantic and then France without seeing Charles de Gaulle, who will visit him later in Washington. Since it would never do to give the impression of an advance Anglo-American caucus, Truman and Churchill decided not to meet before they reached Potsdam. Stalin was coming by train over rails recently changed, all the way to the Elbe, to the broad Russian gauge...
...Uptown & Cross-Country. The keystone of Dorothy Thackrey's enterprises is the 144-year-old New York Post, which William Cullen Bryant once edited. The paper was a consistent money loser from...
...team working out on the Soldiers Field track, and is calling for new men to come down any afternoon to try out. One meet, an invitation meet, has already been tentatively scheduled the middle of August, and others will folfor the middle of August, and others will follow soon. Cross country practice will begin in a few weeks...
...their loyalty by making no secret of their frequent misgivings. But convincing as the story is, the picture is at its best in the faked but grimly realistic battle scenes. In one sequence, outnumbered U.S. and Philippine defenders mow down Japs by the hundred as they try to cross a barbed-wire fence. Best shot: a body, which turns out to be Colonel Wayne, spun, twisted and tossed several feet in the air by the concussion of an exploding shell...