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...Best." Last week, in a bare-boarded, dirty-windowed courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square, before a U.S. Army general court-martial, the ugly story began to unfold. The first defendant was slight, mild-looking Sergeant Judson H. Smith, a guard at the camp, who got an 8th-grade education in bloody Harlan County, Ky. In the words of Colonel James A. Kilian, camp commandant, Smith was "one of the best non-commissioned officers I've ever seen." In four perspiring hours on the stand, Smith denied all charges of mistreating prisoners. Outside the court, the disarmingly forthright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Crime & Punishment | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...from $12 to $25, suits about the same or a little more. Wool dresses cost $10 to $25. These were price ranges for strictly utility wear which could be found without too much hunting. Glamor could be found only in the Bond Street (London's Fifth Avenue) or Grosvenor Street shops, which specialize in French models -and glamor was expensive last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buying Binge | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...noontime last week General Eisenhower inspected huge, noisy "Willow Run." the mass-production officers' mess in London's swank Grosvenor House. Refusing a table in the alcove reserved for rank, General "Ike" joined a line of junior officers at the cafeteria. In due course he collected pork, potatoes, spinach and salad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Ike's Appetite | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...been widely printed in the British press. She is asked everywhere. This week her crowded calendar includes playing a reindeer (if antlers can be found) at the squadron's Christmas party for English school children. In January, Lady Moe will attend a charity ball in London's Grosvenor House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Lady Moe | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...active service the aviators may come under the watchful eyes of numerous other college graduates such as William A. Read '18, Theodore P. Grosvenor '20, Robert Payne '20, and Joseph B. Lynch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naval Aviators Will Find Many Harvard Officers | 10/17/1941 | See Source »

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