Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside Taegu, Major General Hobart Gay, commander of the ist Cavalry Division, had set up his headquarters, in a horse barn at the city's race track. A calm, kindly, humble soldier who was chief of staff to Tanker Patton in World War II, Gay paced up & down in shabby coveralls, looking less like a general than like a Kansas farmer worrying about crops. Pointing to his situation map with a slim, sheathed French bayonet disguised as a riding crop, General, Gay said: "I hope the enemy is as confused about the situation...
First Threat. But the situation soon became clear. The enemy was forced to give ground all along the front. At Tuksong, southwest of Taegu, the Reds had put a small force across the river at night. When dawn came, they were so close to the U.S. positions that Gay's gallant troopers fought them off with bayonets, rifle butts, knives, even fists and feet. The Reds seemed to have no taste for this sort of combat and retreated across the Naktong with heavy casualties, but they came back to fight again near Waegwan (called "Wigwam," "Waukeegan," or "Podunk...
Long dominated by a handful of aging masters, French artists have been increasingly aware, lately, of a young master now dead. Francis Gruber was only 36 when he died of asthma and T.B. in 1948; his Montparnasse friends remember him as an overpowering gay blade who talked, drank and painted at a furious clip and did all three magnificently. His paintings, on show in a Paris gallery last week, were sad and bony as a squirrel in March-cold and sometimes acid in color, scalpel-sharp in line. They consisted mostly of hollow-chested nudes, their breasts pinched with cold...
...escort at the Goodwood ball this year and companion during the Goodwood races, 26-year-old Billy Wallace could claim to be a close rival of Johnny's. Moreover, Billy represented the modern set, and was rated, according to one arbiter of London society, an "amusing, smart, gay companion with American connections" (after his father's death in 1941, his mother married American Journalist Herbert Agar). Gossips felt that Billy might appeal more to Margaret's volatile character than "quiet and friendly" Dalkeith, who is bored by nightclubs...
After three separations and one divorce, Cinemusicomedienne Betty (Annie Get Your Gun) Hutton patched things up with Chicago Businessman Ted Briskin, explained that she had had enough of dating other fellows: "You've always got to be cheerful and gay and whooping it up. You've got to figure out what they want to talk about and what they're interested in and it makes you so tired that you're so glad to leave them and just go home and take off your girdle...