Word: leeb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Olie Ames and Henry Shepley, numbers three and four for Harvard, had tough sledding. Pete Leeb whaled Ames 8 and 6, and Shepley lost 2 and 1 to Bill Danforth. The Brown pair's best ball was 4 and 3 victor over Ames and Shepley...
...hidden strife between the Army and the Gestapo, which stands for the Nazi Party generally, the Gestapo was on top last week. The number of purged generals was reported to be 100 or more,* and though Hitler had been forced to reinstate the three biggest vons (Bock, Runstedt, Leeb) in Russia to mount his spring offensive, he had gone out of his way to decorate Elite Guard heroes. The Army cabal was quiescent. Score one for Reinhard Heydrich. Himmler took the credit...
...Caucasus. More recently, since the failure of his Russian designs, Hitler had proposed a turnabout invasion of Britain. This had been opposed by all his top commanders, all proud veterans of Germany's aristocratic military caste-Field Marshals von Brauchitsch, Fedor von Bock, Ritter Wilhelm von Leeb, Gerd von Rundstedt. They had now been dismissed or had "resigned" or were "gravely ill." The self-proclaimed Oberste Befehlshaber was left to carry on with the support of such latecomers to the military aristocracy as Chief of Operations General Alfred Jodl, Inspector General of the Air Force General Erhard Milch...
Lionhearted Leningrad. Rain and the first snow, driving Field Marshal Ritter von Leeb's northern forces like Hitler's fury, impeded German and Finnish efforts to close the ring around Leningrad...
...Leeb is the most consciously aristocratic, the most austere. Because he wrote a Chronicle of the Leeb Family, he has been called the Family-Tree General. His friend Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm List, who commanded the Balkan campaign, once said: "If Leeb ever tried to smile, it would crack his face." His coldness has deprived him of friends, but he is respected as an upright professional soldier. He lost a son in Poland...