Word: hooligan
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Died. Admiral Russell Randolph Waesche (rhymes with "may she"), 60, the Coast Guard's commandant (1936-45) and first full admiral, who saw his "Hooligan Navy" multiply more than tenfold and become a powerful auxiliary of World War II invasion forces; of a heart ailment; in Bethesda...
...Russia, as in the U.S. and Britain, a hooligan is an unmannerly rough, named in all likelihood for the Irish family Hooligan whose rioting through London's Southwark was immortalized in a music hall song of the period.* Later cartoonist Frederick B. Opper endeared well-meaning, disastrous Happy Hooligan to millions. The U.S. State Department says that in Soviet law hooliganism means "a mild form of disorderliness...
...Some etymologists trace the term to another Irishman named Hooley, whose gang became known as the Hooley-gang. Still others connect it vaguely with a notorious thug named Muldoon whose name spelled backwards reads "noodlum"; hence hoodlum and hooligan...
...Junker but a schoolteacher's son, Erwin Rommel fought with distinction in World War I, emerged into the chaos of postwar Germany a well decorated captain. Lost, he found Hitler. He became the ranting Führer's bodyguard, military adviser and top-drawer hooligan. When Hitler rang up the curtain on World War II Erwin Rommel was a colonel, commanded an 55 division that fought in the battle of Poland's Vistula bend. By the time France was invaded, Rommel was a major general; he led the 7th Armored Division in the breakthrough at Maubeuge...
Married. Dorothy Ledyard Knight, former wife of Manhattan's hooligan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight, who once stood on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House; and Reville Kniffen, 39, onetime cinema executive, now vice president of Zenith Home Products; in Reno Nev. Fumed ex-Husband Knight: "He's nothing but a traveling salesman-a peddler of B-pictures. . . . She's headline-crazy. Mrs. Knight will come crawling back...