Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Veazey Strong, long overdue for duty away from Washington, had been transferred from the top of the General Staff's War Plans Division to command of the VII Corps Area at Omaha. His successor was a 52-year-old, brand-new brigadier general: straight-lipped, shock-haired Leonard Townsend Gerow (pronounced jehr...
...Leonard Gerow knew what to do. Before his last detail (second in command of the 8th Division at Columbia, S. C.), he had put in 18 months in W. P. D. as General Strong's executive. And during his 29 years as an officer he had gone through the Army's best finishing schools, from the War College down, had seen plenty of service with troops and acquitted himself with the cold efficiency that George Marshall likes. Like Marshall he is no West Pointer but a V. M. I. graduate. The legend of Cadet Marshall, All-Southern tackle...
...first statement as Prime Minister to the British House of Commons, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill declared: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat...
...produced by Leonard Sillman). The producer of New Faces now offers a jumbled musical revue, a weird melange of good & bad, conscious & unconscious humor. Its chief asset is Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, 62, colored, who eats four quarts of ice cream daily, holds the world's speed record for running backwards (75 yards in 8.2 seconds) and is the greatest tap dancer in existence. Also easily appreciated is Paul Gerrits, an urbane, roller-skating master of ceremonies, and big, pasty-faced Red Marshall, who serves up vintage burlesque, including a Pullman-car scene entitled Red Rails in the Sunset...
What, then, are the stories? They are ominous, crucl, sad--the sinister adjectives accumulate, perhaps because they are already in the mind. Leonard Ross' Hyman Kaplan story is humorous, of course, and so are the Arthur Kober and Donald Moffat and Richard Lockridge stories. But far more typical are the bitter Jerome Weidman pieces, Irwin Shaw's savage "Sailor off the Bremen" and the incredibly sinister "Wet Saturday" of John Collier. One explanation--perhaps minor, but none the less interesting--suggests itself: the collection represents fifteen and a half years, in that some of the stories actually go back...