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...devout Episcopalian). Became a brigadier general in 1943, then led the Cape Gloucester operation at New Britain. On Guam, his ist Provisional Marine Brigade led one of the beachhead assaults; on Okinawa, Major General Shepherd led his 6th Marine Division to its objective early, wheeled, and lent a much-needed hand in the bitter street fighting for Naha, the capital city. In World War II he picked up two D.S.M.s, two Legions of Merit and a fourth Purple Heart. Postwar: Spent four years as C.O., first at the Amphibious Training School at Little Creek, Va., then at the Marine Corps...
Coach Paul Staley gave a short pop talk, while Lois Ebeling. Miss Radcliffe '54, and Wesley Piersol '55, lent visual encouragement...
...check with local ornithologists lent credence to the crow hypothesis. The North American fish-crow (Corvus ossifragus) does migrate about this time, the experts said, and one might well have lost his way in or around Kirkland House...
Last summer's expedition, financed by the National Geographic Society, carried in a planeload of equipment and set out to find the evidence. Attempts to find fragments of nickel-iron from the meteorite were unsuccessful. The expedition's mine detectors (lent by the U.S. Army) were scarcely more useful: they gave too many indications, squealed excitedly whenever they were brought near an ordinary granite boulder. Apparently, said Geologist Meen, the granite of the region contains enough magnetic iron ore to drive a mine detector wild...
...immediate "theatrical reaction." Moreover, he found the paintings full of "a morality I respect." Stravinsky decided to translate Hogarth into opera. He got distinguished help from Poet W.H. Auden and Brooklyn-born Chester Kallman, who worked up an English libretto with a Faustian theme; Poet T.S. Eliot lent a hand with the final polishing...