Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night of Jan. 30, Private Edward S. Gordon of the 4th Marines was eating a piece of bread he had made from rice flour. Rifle fire shattered the darkness. A Jap sentry, standing on a watch tower listening to the night's hush, tumbled to the earth. The crump of grenades mingled with ripping bursts from automatic weapons. Japs screamed orders, fell before the headlong rush of dimly seen figures brandishing knives and pistols. Unmistakably American voices yelled: "This is a prison break-make for the main gate! These are Yanks...
...prisoners had all been collected-Hubbard, Gordon, Colonel James Duckworth, the sick. There were some 500 of them. Herded by their rescuers, in weird and motley columns they plunged westward through fields, over streams and across the rice paddies toward the American lines...
...scholarly catalogue to go with his show, Director Gordon Washburn caused a few lifted eyebrows by flatly asserting his own preference for the independent U.S. artists of the past. He also pooh-poohed tradition by insisting that the best of Copley, Stuart and Trumbull was their early work - before British influence affected them...
...conservative. There is so little about him that is reminiscent of his predecessor's eloquent and influential liberalism that many wondered last week if the appointment meant that the Church of England was swinging back from the brief near-socialism of William Temple to the Toryism of Cosmo Gordon Lang...
...staff of the '46 Album includes: Daniel P. S. Paul '46, of Adams House and Daytona Beach, Florida, Chairman; Walter Amory '46, of the NROTC and Needham, Financial Vice-Chairman; Gordon P. Baird '46, of Adams House and Delaplane, Virginia, Literary Vice-Chairman; and Russell K. Headley '46, of the V-12 and St. Paul, Minnesota, Photographic Vice-Chairman...