Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare old soldier who limits himself to few speeches, retired General Omar N. Bradley, now board chairman of Bulova Watch Co., finally took pains to rebuke "a distinguished wartime colleague of mine." Said Bradley: "The best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and mothball his opinions." His target: Britain's retired Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, who let Bradley off easy in his potshotting memoirs, more recently lambasted current U.S. leadership. Another Bradleyism for Monty to ponder: "So swift has been the advance of technology in our armed...
...battle of New Orleans (Jan. 8, 1815) is remembered as one of the least fortunate maneuvers in British military history (over 2,000 British casualties, 71 American) and as the springboard that launched General Andrew Jackson on his way to the presidency. It now enjoys a third distinction as the subject of a pop disk, The Battle of New Orleans (Columbia), which has sold some threequarter million copies in less than a month. The recorded Battle is the handiwork of Louisiana Country Singer Johnny Horton, but the song has been played by bayou fiddlers for generations. Singer Horton toned down...
...fuels of the space and atom age get more powerful, they also get harder to handle. Last week General Bernard Schriever, new chief of the Air Forces Research and Development Command, announced that liquid hydrogen, until recently hardly more than a laboratory curiosity, is being produced in considerable quantities as a rocket fuel. Liquid hydrogen is tricky stuff; it boils at minus 423° F., only about 37° above absolute zero. If it is not stored in elaborately insulated containers, it quickly turns to hydrogen gas, and a small amount of the gas makes a dangerous explosive mixture with...
...hydrogen-oxygen rocket of appreciable size has flown so far, but for a year Aerojet-General Corp. has been ground-testing hydrogen rocket motors at its Sacramento plant. Some tests have yielded more than 100,000 Ibs. of thrust. The treacherous new fuel burns cleanly and smoothly, and it is not as hard to store and get along with as some doubters feared...
Born in Nova Scotia, the son of a clergyman, Dean Simpson came to the U.S. in 1927. An Anglican priest since 1921, he had been a World War I Canadian Army captain and a Canadian Rhodes scholar at Oxford (Christ Church). As an assistant professor at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, Dr. Simpson became a U.S. citizen in 1937 ("I cast my first vote for La Guardia") and a distinguished Biblical scholar (The Early Traditions of Israel). In 1954 Oxford called him back to be regius professor of Hebrew and one of Christ Church's five canons. There...