Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same jayvee five that has triumphed twice while losing once will probably take the floor tonight. John Altrocchi and Bill Mobraaten will line up in the forward positions while Dick Covey and Chuck Brynteson will be in the guard slots with Frank Lionette at center...
...went on to say, "as a private individual who, unlike most, has constructive plans for the future." Nesin added that "we are picking the clearest figure," Newspaper treatment, said Nesin, has been unfair and biased; it is the aim of the Committee for Wallace to present his views straight-forward as they stand...
With partition, Gershon Agronsky could look forward to liberation from censorship. "You're not required by law to submit everything," he says, "but God help you if you don't." He knows that the Post will face a heavier responsibility as the British pull out. The best tribute the Post has had came from the British High Commissioner on its tenth birthday. Sir Harold MacMichael congratulated the paper for "stating facts fairly, respecting confidences and avoiding equally sensationalism, snobbery and cheap insinuation...
Fire Bug. A joint Government-industry committee put its finger on the cause of fires aboard two Douglas DC-6 planes, which had led U.S. airlines and Douglas Aircraft Co. to ground all DC-6s in service. As expected (TIME, Nov. 24), CAB decided that the gasoline tank vent forward of an air scoop permitted gasoline to be sucked into the heating system, where it ignited. Douglas plans to move the vent and make some other minor design changes, paying for them itself. The airlines do not expect to get the 92 grounded planes back into service until next month...
Dozens of divisional and regimental histories were in print or preparation. Many were dedicated to the proposition that "our outfit won the war single-handed." A pretentious quickie with this theme was Newspaperman Robert Allen's Patton-worshiping history of the Third Army, Lucky Forward. Patton's own War As I Knew It was much better written, naturally more authoritative, a rich mine of precepts-into-practice for students of warfare. A superior war book of a different kind was the late John Gilbert Winant's Letter from Grosvenor Square, a moving account of wartime faith that...