Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Euskirchen, 17 miles west of the Rhine, Major General John W. Leonard heard of Cologne's capture. Other elements of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' U.S. First Army had that situation well in hand. General Leonard's 9th Armored Division could turn southeast to hit the Rhine and envelop more of its west bank. Leonard gave an open order: keep going; if you reach the river try to establish a crossing and hold...
...Frankie and Johnnie ballet which might well have attracted a censor's attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This Was a Man, which the Lord Chamberlain banned in England as indecent...
...divisions must have been coming into the theater, for Winston Churchill declared that the western front was stronger than ever in combat effectives. Major General Leonard T. Gerow had relinquished command of the V Corps, had been promoted to three-star rank. That looked as though he might get a new army command...
...Bloomington, Ind., Leonard Evans, 76, was struck by a car, died...
Credit for the suave showmanship went to Conductor Karl Kreuger, 50, U.S.-born, Vienna-trained, one of the four top native-born maestros in the U.S. (the others: Leonard Bernstein, Werner Janssen, Alfred Wallenstein). Maestro Kreuger had snatched up Detroit's baton late in 1943, whipped his 110 players into shape in record time. Carnegie Hall rewarded his energy with a favorable verdict: Detroit's music is as lush, efficient, unsubtle and breath-taking as Detroit's glamor-drawings of the postwar family sedan...