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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PROXY FIGHT to oust Penn-Texas Boss Leopold Silberstein will be attempted by three directors: Robert C. Finkelstein and Wallace S. Whittaker, who were elected by anti-Silberstein rebels last year, and Major General Charles T. Lanham, onetime Silberstein ally. They are trying to win over three neutral directors who swing power balance on eleven-man board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Died. Henderson Lovelace Lanham, 69, U.S. Representative from Georgia since 1947, who viewed himself as a "progressive without being a radical"; when his car collided with a train; in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...Major General Charles Trueman Lanham (ret.), 53, Dwight Eisenhower's chief press officer in SHAPE (and "prototype" of Colonel Cantwell, hero of Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees), is slated to be board chairman of Colt's Manufacturing Co., which was taken over last week by Penn-Texas Corp. (TIME, Oct. 3). Born in Washington, B.C., West Pointer "Buck" Lanham wrote poetry until it interfered with his Army career, later edited Infantry in Battle, a widely used Army textbook. In World War II, he fought through Normandy and the Bulge with the 22nd Infantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...because he couldn't find one big enough. Accredited a foreign correspondent for Collier's (he jokingly called himself "Ernie Hemorrhoid, the poor man's Pyle"), he took part in more of the European war than many a soldier. With Colonel (now Major General) Charles T. Lanham's 22nd Infantry Regiment, he went through the Normandy breakthrough, Schnee Eifel, the Hiirtgen Forest bloodletting and the defense of Luxembourg. Gathering 200 French irregulars around him, he negotiated huge allotments of ammunition and alcohol and assisted in the liberation of Paris. Hemingway personally liberated the Ritz Hotel, posted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Storyteller | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...Major General Charles T. (for Trueman) Lanham, 52, famed as the "prototype" for Ernest Hemingway's Montgomery*-gulping Colonel Richard Cantwell of Across the River and Into the Trees, was named president of Market Relations Network, Inc., Manhattan publicity firm. A West Pointer, "Buck" Lanham was given command of the 4th Infantry Division's 22nd Regiment shortly after Dday. The division, with Hemingway attached to it as a correspondent, saw plenty of action (e.g., the Normandy breakthrough, Hurtgen Forest, the Bulge), and Lanham received a chestful of decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross. After the war, he became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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