Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison, he wangled a soft job on the hospital detail. He remembered a Kemper schoolmate, Paul Greenlease. foster brother of Bobby. The Greenlease family was rich, Hall knew. His plans began to take shape. He was paroled last April, after serving only 14 months of a five-year term. He got and lost a job as an auto salesman, and then told the parole office, to which he reported regularly, that he was working for an insurance company. This was a lie, detectable by a telephone call, but Hall was not caught...
...tones more weary than bitter, all told stories that differed in detail but agreed in substance with Keuntje's. "If we died, they carted off the bodies. If we lived, we lived," said Keuntje...
...perilous halts in mid-ocean for rescues or repairs, and there are two scenes remarkable for stark visual impact-the sinking of H.M.S. Compass Rose, and the running down of floating survivors in a vain attempt to destroy a U-boat. Impressive also is the film's attention to detail; the viewer becomes completely familiar with the Compass Rose, the radar screen on the bridge, the pistons in the engine room, and he begins to listen himself for the sonar pings that warn of a nearby U-boat...
...unglamorous duty at the Pentagon. A graduate of Ohio's Miami University, he started with an infantry commission in 1917, saw combat service in World War I (Silver Star for gallantry), then buckled down to a sucession of staff and training jobs. Modest, loyal, and a bug for detail, he moved to one tough assignment after another: chief of the Army's Operations and Plans Division (1943), boss of the 1948 A-bomb tests at Eniwetok, director of the Defense Department's weapons-evaluation system, Army Vice Chief of Staff. Yet he remained more anonymous than most...
Last week, eight years to the day after the surrender of his Japanese enemies, General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 70, died of a stroke. After his funeral service, a detail of Fourth Army soldiers escorted his body out of Fort Sam's chapel to the post gate. Behind the coffin, his orderly led a cavalry horse with an empty saddle, the general's spurred boots reversed in the stirrups, and the sword he had once surrendered on Corregidor hanging stiffly at the side...