Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whither had the captains departed? Where were the generals and admirals whom war had made famous...
Some of the most famous had withdrawn into the wings-to let younger men take over, or simply to rest. The A.A.F.'s General of the Army "Hap" Arnold was content to putter around his Sonoma (Calif.) ranch, contribute an occasional folksy column to the local paper. Effervescent Admiral "Bull" Halsey, another five-star officer, was less satisfied. He had hoped for a job in private industry, but the President disliked the idea of his elder military statesmen accepting salaries while drawing full lifetime Government pay. Bull Halsey traveled and made speeches...
...hours later, Frye announced his resignation from T.W.A. Thus, after many a month of well-chronicled discord, the most famous U.S. airline team finally broke...
Most of Leroy Anderson's famous medleys of Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, and Harvard songs can be found among the four 12-inch records of the album. It is hard to choose between the first three--about all you can say is that the Harvard ones come out a poor second by virtue of their own inherent inferiority...
Babe Ruth, in a Manhattan hospital ever since an operation on his neck last November, finally went home. In his famous camel's hair coat & cap he didn't look bad to the camera's eye (see cut), but two people helped him walk from the hospital entrance to his car. "I'm going home for a little vacation," he said. "... I want to look at the river...