Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indifference. But Heinrich neither needs nor uses literary symbolism. With a spare, brutal directness of language, he is able to show how men fight and die, convey the pressing of a trigger, the spreading stain of blood in the snow. Crack of Doom makes one thing overpoweringly clear: Infantryman Heinrich was there, and he didn't miss a thing...
Kraft Television Theater: Borrowing freely from Balzac's tale of the strange friendship between a lone soldier and a panther in the desert, Playwright Simon Wincelberg almost captured the novelist's eerie mood as well. In The Sea Is Boiling Hot, the panther became a stoical Japanese infantryman (Sessue Hayakawa) marooned alone on a Pacific island in World War II. His unwelcome visitor: a fallen U.S. airman (Earl Holliman). The two-man play dared to turn almost entirely upon monologues by the American, yet managed effectively to sweep its characters over their language barrier from enmity to camaraderie...
...Infantryman Eisenhower was assigned to Stateside training, but first got a month's furlough to serve as aide to his father during the Allied drive across France. After the war, traveling with Ike, John watched parades in Moscow with Stalin, danced with Princess Margaret at Balmoral Castle. Promoted to captain in 1946, he commanded U.S. garrison troops in Austria, in Vienna met, wined and dined and soon married (1947) Barbara Jean Thompson, slim, calm, brunette daughter of an Army colonel...
...went off to his first combat in Korea, was assigned to one of Ike's old prewar outfits, the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment. As G-3 (Operations) and later as a 3rd Division Intelligence officer for 14 months, John came under Communist mortar fire, earned his Combat Infantryman's Badge and a Bronze Star, won high praise from his superiors. Reported one of them, Colonel Edwin H. Burba: "He's a very competent, long-headed individual with a quick, analytical mind...
Fleischman's serious collecting began after service overseas in World War II as a combat infantryman. On the advice of his wife, a keen art student, he shifted his buying to American works, and now Fleischman has a handsome collection of Winslow Homer and John Marin watercolors. "What started out to be a hobby has become a disease," he admits...