Word: guardsman
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...Army still overwhelmingly commanded by whites, many of whom have not yet adjusted fully to the concept of a color-blind military. Alexander was educated at Harvard University and Yale Law School, not West Point. Actually, his military experience was six months' active duty as a National Guardsman. As Secretary of the Army, he asks hard questions about the treatment of black soldiers. He also is a strong advocate of a greater role for women, to the distress of many generals, including Rogers, who think too many women too soon may damage the Army's combat readiness...
DIED. Alfred Lunt, 84, celebrated actor and director who with his wife Lynn Fontanne reigned over Broadway for nearly four decades; of cancer; in Chicago. The Lunts, who began acting together on Broadway soon after they were married in 1922, co-starred in more than two dozen plays (The Guardsman, Reunion in Vienna, There Shall Be No Night, The Visit), some of which Lunt also directed. Creating a chemistry of opposites, he tall and temperamental, she lithe and blithe, theater's royal couple delighted playgoers with their consummate craftsmanship and their sophisticated badinage both onstage and off. Though...
...GUARDSMAN...
Even a festival devotedly committed to the classics can afford a little sophisticated comic relief, and that is what this play provides. The Lunts won vast acclaim with The Guardsman when they opened in it in 1924, though one can scarcely imagine this somewhat fragile comedy holding its own on Broadway...
Heavy rains in the Appalachian hill country of eastern Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia sent some rivers rolling to their highest flood levels in a century. As the Big Sandy, Cumberland and Kentucky gushed over their banks in Kentucky (a national guardsman described "a big whooshing noise"), five people were swept to their deaths and 7,600 families fled. When they returned, their homes were gone, or wrecked by water...