Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mitchell Red Cloud had become a fighting man early in life-almost as early as if he had lived when his Sioux ancestors were warring on the Great Plains. He had left high school, before Pearl Harbor, to join up with the Marines and win his expert rifleman's badge, had served at Midway Island, through the thickest of the struggle on Guadalcanal, and in many a mission with Carlson's Raiders. He had weighed 195 Ibs. when he joined the Marines, only 115 when he was mustered out. But when the Korean war began Mitchell Red Cloud...
...colonel a Chippewa chief, although they were a little hazy on the reason why. But they trusted their neighbor, who had set up all the arrangements: Editor John Chappie, 51, of the Ashland Daily Press (circ. 4,397), who idolizes Bertie McCormick as the world's foremost military expert and the "most courageous American alive." Explained one squaw: "We would do it for Chappie because he helped us Indians get on relief...
Both sides decided to state their positions clearly. Duffy explained his library raid: "The action was taken so we will have something for the grand jury to use in making comparison. I'm no expert on obscene literature and I don't believe the grand jury is either...
...foreign editor was abolished. Last summer, the Herald achieved the doubtful honor of being the only big British daily without a correspondent in Korea. (To cover the Far East, the Herald has one string correspondent in Tokyo.) In Europe, the Herald recently dropped its oldtime Central European expert, G.E.R. Gedye, closed up its bureaus in Paris and Berlin. Fleet Street gossiped that the paper would soon abolish its only remaining overseas bureau, in Washington...
...split his partnership with Billy Wilder, The Mating Season is a disappointment. Among its contrivances, it tries to palm off Lund as a sympathetic character, an effort that fails despite the script's broad, last-minute gestures. Star Ritter gets most of her help from Actress Hopkins' expert playing of a bitchy lady of quality. There is also a surprisingly animated performance by Gene Tierney...