Word: gavin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard University, New Convent where alchol is prohibited but psychoanalysis is familiar, and where students work for the pleasure of earning money." The editor printed the excerpts because of their "new point of view, not tainted by political color-blindness nor preoccupied with propagandistic purposes." (Translation was done by Gavin R.W. Scott...
...Named to the permanent rank of major general 14 Army officers, including famed Airborne Specialist James M. Gavin, who already has the temporary rank of lieutenant general...
...will reach to 1,500 miles. The Redstone is the reason why the Army has been given a crack at the IRBMs (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles), which have the same urgent priority as the ICBM. The Army intends to carry Redstone by air. Says Lieut. General James M. Gavin, head of Army Research and Development: "We want to be able to put it in cargo airplanes along with all its auxiliaries, fly it to Thailand or the Greenland icecap, and fire it a couple of hours after we land." Below the range of the Redstone, the Army is nursing...
...your issue of January 12, you carried a short review by Gavin Scott of the English film, Lease of Life, in which he makes the egregious error of saying that "no Anglican vicar in all England could possibly have as lovely a daughter as Adrienne Corri," who presumably played the part of a country parson's deserving offspring...
This absurd and nonsensical statement has no basis in fact whatever, and I am morally confident that Gavin Scott has never done any empirical, field investigation of it. As a former parson in the Church of England, I can testify that I have seen many beauties of an optimum standard, sired by C. of E. Clergymen. As a matter of fact, I have one of my own and as a "lovely" I'd stack her up against any Ealing Studio bombshell.... Joseph Fletcher, Robert Treat Paine Professor of Social Ethics, Episcopal Theological School...