Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...units had surged forward from their beachheads against a scattered, disorganized resistance, swiftly capturing more than a fourth of the 60-mile-long island. Under Major General Roy S. Geiger, the leathernecks of the III Marine Amphibious Corps had pressed north, reached through the Ishikawa Isthmus to the neighborhood of Kin. Under Major General John R. Hodge, the doughboys of the XXIV Army Corps had moved south toward Naha, the island's capital...
Postwar Plans. In San Francisco, waiting out the war and trying to keep track of her family, is Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner,* who was born Adele Blanc, in New Orleans, but moved to Kentucky "when she was a quadruped." Her elder son, Simon Bolivar III, is a captain in the Signal Corps in France, her younger son, William Claiborne, a plebe at West Point. The daughter, Mary, is studying at the University of California...
Marriage Annulled. Fanny Taylor Baldwin Foote, 20, daughter of suave. Republican Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin III from Manhattan's "silk stocking district"; and Wallace Turner Foote. 26, Manhattan socialite. Representative Baldwin, appearing for his daughter, testified that his son-in-law had never consummated the two-year-old marriage...
Marshall Field III, a gentleman of leisure for the first 40-odd years of his life, has spent the past ten years trying his best to be ungentlemanly. It comes hard. This week, in his first book (Freedom Is More Than a Word; University of Chicago Press; $2.50), he attempts to tell, in very gentlemanly fashion, what...
...dangerous wilderness. Our pathfinder is dead. But there are others to show the way. How can we know where to follow if the tears blur our visit and pessimism beclouds our minds. There was no hope who accept the inevitability of war, who have taken "World War III" into their vocabulary, will doubt more deeply now the possibilities for peace. President Roosevelt is gone, they will wail, and Simple Uncle Sam will be outsmarted in his own San Francisco...