Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 21, 1943, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, Commander of the China-Burma-India Theater, Chief of Staff to Chiang Kaishek, wrote to his wife in Carmel, Calif. In the letter he enclosed the following verse...
...After 75 years of marriage, Mrs. Joseph Forstadt of New York gave her formula for success as a wife: "Just keep your mouth shut...
...corpus delicti-"often used erroneously to designate the physical body of the victim of a murder" (Webster). Actually, corpus delicti is the "substantial and fundamental facts necessary to the commission of a crime." Britain's last murder-without-body was in 1934, when a poultry breeder, Thomas Joseph Davidson, drowned his eight-year-old son. He was sent to prison for life...
Died. Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, U.S.N. (ret.), 75, early advocate of naval air power, first Commander in Chief of the U.S. fleet (1934-36) to wear wings (observer) and last to sport a beard (Vandyke); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. Reeves, a stanchion-stiff disciplinarian, earned his first commendation in the engine room of the Oregon on her round-the-Horn dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend...
SWIMMING (major H)--Henry H. Arthur '46 ocC; Snelling R. Brainard '48; Jease M. Buzby, Jr. '47 ocC (captain; Thomas E. Drohan '49; Joseph M. Fox '50; Jeremy W. German '49; William M. MacVicar '49; Forbes H. Norris, Jr. '49; Donald M. Ulen '46 ocC; Lauriston Ward, Jr. '50; Henry N. Watkins '50; Thomas S. Woods, 3rd '50; Rogers B. Johnson, Jr. '49 (manager). Minor H: Wayne G. Barnett...