Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allies were to become standard operating procedure in World War II, but when the Allies landed on North Africa ("Operation Torch") in November 1942, the idea was a formidable novelty to planners. Lemnitzer drew up the plans for Torch. As Supreme Commander Eisenhower's Assistant Chief of Staff (G-3), he showed such a gift for working out the tactical obstacles and logistic snarls of joint operations that he became a sort of permanent, rotating staff officer, got little chance to command his own unit...
...John Fitzgerald Kennedy discovered last week, is a political hotel where beds are soft and the rates are right, but the manager doubles as house detective. Ranging from Sacramento to Los Angeles on a three-day visit, Presidential Hopeful Kennedy got such VIP honors as breakfast with Governor Edmund G. Brown and an invitation to address the legislature. But wherever Kennedy wandered, stern-eyed Detective Brown watched lest Kennedy set up an organization to slip into his valise any of California's convention votes. Reason: "Pat" Brown himself has developed high ambitions about the 1960 convention, has announced...
...Junior Ushers for Commencement have also been selected by the Committee. The juniors named are, from Adams House, Richard S. M. Emrich, William H. Fitzhugh, George R. Sprague, Edward B. Segel, T. Carter Hagaman, and Jonathan G. Macy; from Dunster House, James F. Flug, Roger F. Dashen, Stephen R. Crespin, Daniel A. Pollack, Peter J. Solomon, James K. Hurd, Jr., and Patrick R. Liles; from Eliot House, Harlow Russell, III, Chauncey L. Walker, John J. Schenefield, Stefan D. Abrams, Philippe M. Charat, Richard C. Marcus, David F. Hurwitt, James D. Lorenz, Grenville T. Emmet, and David L. Cappiello...
...Alan R. Blackmer, Douglas M. Cain, Jr., Benjamin R. Neilson, Lawrence B. Ekpebu, Langley C. Keyes, Robert R. Little, and John C. Provine; from Winthrop House, Michael W. Christian Arthur S. Cahn Samuel A. Halaby, Michael B. Donohue, Konard A. Ulbrich, Harold J. Keohane, Robert T. David, and William G. Reid. The remaining ushers are charles W. Maynes from Claverly Hall, Harvey L. Ozer and Alan P. Pollard, both from Wigglesworth Hall, Donald P. Quinn and Francis J. Culhane from Cambridge, and Lawrence C. Browne from Dedham...
Mozart's glorious Piano Concerto in G, K. 453, featured Edgar Murray '60 as the soloist. Though he phrased with style and intelligence, his lacklustre tone failed to bring to life many of his good musical ideas. In the third movement, however, his performance brightened considerably and he handled the variations accurately and vigorously...