Word: hartness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ablest of all German generals," British Military Historian Liddell Hart called him. "Our finest operational brain," said Panzer General Heinz Guderian, an exacting judge. Erich von Manstein charted the daring Panzer thrust through the Ardennes that split the Allied armies and defeated France, and was assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March...
...University of Southern California heaved the 16-lb. shot to a new unofficial world record in the West Coast relays. O'Brien's prodigious heave: 59 ft. ¾ in., bettering the 1950 record of Yale's Jim Fuchs by 2% in. ¶ In Rome, Doris Hart, the U.S.'s No. 2 women's tennis player, upset Maureen Connolly...
...latest addition to the Rommel legend is a book written by Rommel himself. From the time he led his tanks across the French border in 1940, Rommel made copious notes on his exploits. From these, and from Rommel's letters to his wife, Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, British military expert and historian, has put together a first-rate book, amply illustrated with Amateur Photographer Rommel's own shots. The Rommel Papers give the most revealing picture yet of a brilliant commander who lived, fought and died in the Prussian tradition of military ruthlessness...
Princeton varsity: Bow, Stone; 2, Robinson; 3, Hart; 4, Reister; 5, Beck; 6, Dayan; 7, Ertel; Stroke, Deiger; Cox, Lyle...
...Allen Boretz), at Manhattan's White Way Hotel, has gone downhill since 1937. George Abbott no longer directs operations there, and though the present staff (John Randolph, Everett Sloane, Jack Lemmon) is conscientious and willing, it lacks the ingratiating touch the old staff (Sam Levene, Philip Loeb, Teddy Hart) had. Even in 1937 that touch was decidedly needed: Room Service is for the most part hack farce, and only as a skillful exhibition of the dodges and makeshifts of show business, a lively conglomeration of classic...