Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other notables of the class of 1915: Eighth Army's four-star Jim Van Fleet; the Air Force's four-star Joe McNarney, now retired and president of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.; the Air Force's three-star George Stratemeyer, also retired. Of the class's 164 graduates, 41 are dead, 74 retired, 20 in civilian jobs, 26 in the Army, three in the Air Force...
...spite of their losses, the proud ROKs had proved their stomach for battle. Last week Eighth Army Commander James Van Fleet, the man mainly responsible for the ROK resurgence, reviewed elements of two new ROK divisions-the 12th and 15th-at the start of their training. With the copybook eloquence that becomes him, Soldier Van Fleet said: "The ROK army has come of age. It has proved to the world its great fighting heart. It will always be successful in battle. May it never fail...
Since this is a Metropolitan League meeting only five men will play. In intercollegiate matches, nine men are entered. At the present time Guy Paschal, highest ranking sophomore, is sixth. John Ward is seventh and John Rauh eighth. Ed Rose, Steve Sonnabend, and Bill Wister are all in the running for the ninth spot...
...took third in the Yale-Princeton meet this fall, leading the team to its first Big Three title since 1942. He finished eighth in the Heptagonal meet and 52nd in the IC4A championships...
...doctors could not tell what ailed the baby in a railroad flat on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue. She had an up & down fever and convulsions soon after birth, there was something wrong with her eyes and her head became enlarged. She died in a hospital at the age of one month. Pathologists Abner Wolf and David Cowen could not fix the cause of death, but they found some puzzling little organisms in the brain. They were protozoa, to be sure, but what kind? Not until two years later (1939), when the two doctors had a similar ease and were...