Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff car rolled to a dockside some where in New Guinea, discharged a four-star passenger. Columns of green-clad U.S. soldiers boarding transports recognized Douglas MacArthur's plain shirt and trousers, braided cap, plump cigar. Brigadier General Julian Cunningham walked over, saluted...
Captain Dick Mechem, all-league defensemen last year, will lead the group of five Varsity veterans. The group includes Bill Harding, Jim Apthorp, Oz. Eliot, all wings, and goalie Gus Summers. There ae three regulars from last year's J. V. team, Milt Stearns, Wally Trumbull and Sandy Cunningham. It is also rumored that the V-12 unit has a former semi-pro players in its ranks...
...Trod. Togo and his naval heirs might have been - but were not - molded by "the Nelson touch," as Admiral Nelson himself referred to his way of fighting. Essence of the Nelson touch was the order: "Close with the enemy." Allied naval officers still revere and in some cases (notably Cunningham of the Mediterranean and Halsey of the South Pacific) still have the Nelson touch: their one desire is to find and destroy the enemy fleet. But not the Japs...
...Britain's highest naval post-First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff-went her greatest active seaman, Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham. In the job of directing the entire Royal Navy he succeeded ailing Admiral Sir Dudley Pound...
...counted the couple's luggage, duly reported 31 pieces. For that, the Duchess gave interviewers a lecture, called it all "most extraordinary," pointed out that the 31 pieces were not just for herself and husband but also a maid, a valet and a secretary. Wrote Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham: "Possibly I'm stupid but it seems to me that this makes it all incredibly worse-five people and all this culch loading up a common carrier in times such as these just to call upon an ailing aunt...