Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thompson went to LIFE in October 1937. In 1942 he joined the Army as an armored force captain, was transferred to the Air Force to found and edit Impact, a LiFE-like confidential air intelligence magazine. He wound up in 1944 as a lieutenant colonel in charge of German air force intelligence at SHAEF, was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Order of the British Empire...
...They Never Told Us." Soviet indoctrination, however, did not shield all the 2,000 from the impact of home. Private Masaatsu Okada stammered: "My heart is full." Some wept. Recalling the bare grass mountains of Siberia, Toshiji Sugimoto choked: "When we first saw the bamboo forests this morning . . ." He broke off. "I just can't put it in words...
After the race, the great crowd seemed stunned by the impact of a Jones-trained horse winning at such odds. Ben himself, more excited than after Citation's victory last year, forgot his limp as he hotfooted it down the track to meet Ponder jogging back to the presentation stand. The 66-year-old training wizard from Parnell, Mo., a genius at getting a horse ready for one big race, had the look of a man who had fooled even himself. Said little Conn McCreary, who finished fifth aboard Halt: "When the day comes around, he makes you look...
...sermon, with the fuzzy moral that the Westerner should be on the side of the natives-whatever that is. Thus, better than any of the others, it makes plain what kind of blinkers Robert Shaplen's characters seem to wear. They are quite upset about what the Western impact may have done or failed to do to Asia but their reactions are impractical and confused and in some cases defy analysis. If Asia itself has anything to worry about after the Western rascals and mixed-up men of good will are kicked out, his heroes haven't figured...
...Brit Hadden was. The informal portrait, lit with humor, shows a husky, mustached young man with intense grey eyes, enormous curiosity and vitality, and a huge capacity for work, play and horseplay. In his life & time (and the extravagant, turbulent '20s were all the time he had) his impact on U.S. journalism was as forceful...