Word: lemuel
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...lather of commercialized hullabaloo. The Sans Souci insouciantly proceeded to run a red carpet from its lobby to the street, redecorate a 16-room wing as the imperial suite, paint the Shah's coat of arms on every royal door in sight. Hardheaded U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Lemuel Shepherd Jr. declined the hotel's request to supply ammunition to a local Marine artillery battery for a 21-gun salute (it was no state visit). Then the harassed protocol men asked the Navy for help. The Navy designated a Miami-docked destroyer to boom the salute, but the ship...
...scion of an old Virginia fox-hunting family, Marine Corps Commandant Lemuel Cornicle Shepherd Jr., 58, took a day off from his official duties, rode off across the Virginia hills with a Warrenton hunt. The chase went merrily until General Shepherd's horse stepped in a hole and took a header. Although he rolled clear of his mount, much-wounded (four Purple Hearts) Marine Shepherd got up with a broken collarbone, was mending nicely at week...
...spit-and-polish commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., sourly noted the uniformed posteriors of some of his men, ordered all Marine commanders to take "immediate steps" about "the trousers too short and too tight in the seat...
...with the presidency of Walter A. Jessup (1916-34), S.U.I, gradually embarked on a whole new tack. Under Ed ward Mabie, the aramatic art department and University Theater started turning out such alumni as Playwright Tennessee Williams, Producer Richard (The Big Clock) Maibaum, Actor Macdonald Carey and Stage Designer Lemuel (Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate) Ayers. Onto the prairie, meanwhile, came poets, novelists and painters (among them: Iowa-born Grant Wood). The university began a representative collection of modern American canvases, and its auditoriums began to echo with new music. Largely through the influence of Psychologist Carl Seashore, S.U.I, took...
...court called on the Defense Department to prepare a new rule of conduct for Americans who may some day, as prisoners, be called on to face the Red treatment. In a lengthy comment, General Lemuel C. Shepherd, the Corps commandant, did not quarrel with the court's finding in the individual case of Colonel Schwable. but he did attack the court's amazing generalization that under Red torture all prisoners must either confess or go mad or die. In Korea, there were many cases of tortured prisoners who did none of these. Said Shepherd: "Some found the strength...