Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action in North Africa and Italy as an Armored Force officer, wound up the war as a combat liaison officer (lieutenant colonel) between U.S. and French forces in Germany. He came back with six battle stars, the Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star for performance under enemy fire in Italy, and a permanently changed mind about the U.S.'s role in the world. Back in the Senate after the war, he supported reciprocal trade, foreign aid, the U.N., was one of NATO's staunchest friends...
Such harassing fire, the restless reaction of a hair-trigger combat commander caught in the paper and politics of the peacetime Pentagon, tends to obscure the best of his book and the special brand of Army "wild blue yonder" that is the best of Jim Gavin. After a hard-eyed assessment of a U.S. Army that could be stopped by the "primitive" Red Chinese in Korea, he makes a passionate demand for the money and decisions to provide the West with an atom-armed and airmobile fighting force that can hold down Communist threats, big and little, by being ready...
...this production is Hal March, who is making his legitimate stage debut. Tackling the role in which Paul Douglas scored on Broadway, he proves that he can do more than fire questions at TV contestants in isolation booths. In fact, he gives a smooth, consistent and convincing performance. His only serious lapse is near the close of the first act, where he has a heart-to-heart talk with his son and reminisces about his dead wife. This is hard to pull off, but the writing is so fine that it still emerges as one of the two most memorable...
...convertibles since 1952, the Nordic types had things pretty much their own way for five years. Glacial Grace Kelly was setting a world standard of beauty, the winning faces were aloof, the busts visible but not too obvious, the legs long and slim. Last year things suddenly went dark. Fire, not ice, won going away; Miss Universe was dark-haired, liquid-eyed Gladys Zender, 18, of Peru; second place went to a warm-skinned Miss Brazil, and the fourth-place trophy went home to Havana with a raven-tressed Miss Cuba...
...major position in the Japanese mining industry, has 28 subsidiaries. They get their mining and transportation equipment from Mitsui firms, send their mined minerals to Mitsui manufacturers. Manufactured products are handled by Mitsui trading firms, stored in Mitsui warehouses, transported by Mitsui shipping. Mitsui's Taisho Marine & Fire Insurance covers any damage, and the whole operation is financed through the Mitsui Bank...