Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alan Gordon Cunningham, 54, hates big cities. He likes gardening. He also likes dogs. But what he likes best is to fight battles on land. This time, as commander of the newly designated Eighth Imperial Army, he had a whopper on his hands. Lieut. General Cunningham's fame is young: last spring he drove 1,500 miles from Kenya, through Italian Somaliland and the Ethiopian desert right to Addis Ababa, reaching the capital faster than other British columns with far shorter distances to go. His name is almost always bracketed with his succinct Order of the Day before that...
...years between, blond, six-foot-three Squadron Leader Chesley Gordon Peterson, D.F.C., had skipped through the Payson, Utah High School and Brigham Young University. He had learned a lot about mathematics, agriculture and dancing. After college he worked in the Douglas Aircraft factory. But with the flying bug still in him, he joined the U.S. Air Corps as a cadet. He was finally kicked out, ostensibly because he was a "bloody awful flyer," actually because he had lied about...
When Air Marshal Italo Balbo was shot down in Libya last year, there were persistent rumors that he was killed on orders from Italian higher-ups (TIME, July 8, 1940). Correspondent Gordon Sinclair of the Toronto Star last week quoted Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, R.A.F. Commander in Egypt at the time...
Healing Arts. With sulfanilamide and quick blood transfusion, about 60% of wartime casualties with abdominal wounds recover, as compared to 38% in the last war. Otherwise, said Dr. Gordon Gordon-Taylor, Temporary Surgeon Rear Admiral of the British Navy, "there is little we have learned about abdominal wounds in this war that we had not already learned from the last war." Sidelight on civilian warfare: "Every maternity hospital in London was bombed but fortunately no patients were hurt while in labor...
Theodore M. Adelson '44, Charles G. Alex '43, Gordon Allen '42, Joseph M. Ambrose '42, Adolbert Ames 3d. '43, John W. Armstrong Jr. '42, Fred G. Arragg '44, Alfred L. Atherton...