Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost exactly ten years ago, a strutting, mustachioed Greek colonel returned to liberated Athens with a shining military reputation. The colonel's ist Greek Brigade, organized from Greek exiles, had done well against the Germans in North Africa, and the colonel thought so highly of his own performance that he styled himself "The Hero of El Alamein." In December 1944, as military governor of Athens, the colonel quit his desk to lead three companies of infantry and a handful of tanks against swarming Communist guerrillas, and he defeated them, spectacularly, in the gardens of the royal palace...
...decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross. After the war, he became staff director of Defense Secretary James Forrestal's Personnel Policy Board (for all the armed services), later served as Dwight Eisenhower's chief press officer at SHAPE. In January 1953, Lanham took command of the famed ist Division (Big Red 1) in Germany, held it until his recent return...
...blue reaches of Washington's Elk Lake, the cool snow fields of 7,954-ft. Mount Olympus loomed white and tempting. After a couple of days of working the lake, a group of fishermen decided that a little mountaineering might be a fine diversion. British-born Biochem ist Anthony Levy, 30, who had joined the fishing party at the last moment, had done a little snow climbing; two of the other three had no experience at all. University of Washington Medical Student Richard Neal Jr., 24, made the trek in smooth-soled shoes. Even so, all four...
...Same Old Desert. Famed Surreal ist Painter Tanguy, 54, does not look like a medium?more like a country gentleman. Born in Paris at the turn of the century, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes...
...collect swords, and Ike's trophy collection is no exception.* There are the famed "Crusaders' Sword," which the city of London presented to General Eisenhower at the London Guildhall; an ancient Japanese sword with the imperial chrysanthemum on the scabbard, a gift of the men of the ist Cavalry Division; the jewel-encrusted, $300.000 sword of Wilhelmina, from The Netherlands; Marshal Zhukov's personal dagger; and ceremonial swords and daggers from a dozen other countries...