Word: gavin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hannibal's Pass. Much archaeological work is done not by digging, but by patiently assembling data in a quiet study. Twenty-five years ago, Sir Gavin de Beer, now director of London's British Museum of Natural History, set himself the task of finding out how the army of Hannibal the Carthaginian crossed the Alps to invade Italy...
There was something of the old dragoon about Zhukov's stiff, yet colorful, swagger. Says U.S. General James Gavin (who also rose from the ranks) : "He has a hard face, which can break into a wonderful smile. He's a man of the earth, short, pudgy fingers and a lot of brains...
...topflight U.S. military analyst, the New York Times's Hanson W. Baldwin usually gets a cordial welcome at the Pentagon. But last week he got a rude surprise. When he tried to make appointments for talks with General Matthew Ridgway, Admiral Robert B. Carney, Lieut. General James Gavin and other high brass, he was turned down cold. Other Pentagon newsmen had similar experiences. An Army, Navy, Air Force Journal staffer asked for obituary material on a Marine brigadier general, did not get it until the handout was marked "reviewed and cleared" by a Navy captain...
...Major General James Gavin, 48 next week, promoted to Lemnitzer's former post as deputy chief of staff for plans and research. Brooklyn-born Gavin ran away to join the Army at 17, and soon won a competitive exam for West Point (although he never went to high school). A pioneer paratrooper, he jumped nearly 100 times and fought 422 days in combat with his 82nd Airborne Division, later wrote the Army's standard Airborne Warfare, in which he developed the doctrine of "vertical envelopment...
...Rose and Guy Paschal, playing four and five, ended the meet by defeating Sam Hoar and Gavin Murphy. Both matches went to four games...