Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...October, Lieut. George F. Gorman of the North Dakota National Guard re ported that he had had a dogfight with a flying saucer Over Fargo. He was heading for his airfield in his FSI at night when he saw a mysterious light "six to eigh inches in diameter, clear white and com pletely round with a sort of fuzz at the edges." Lieut. Gorman dived at the light the light dived at Gorman. Round & round they went for 27 minutes. Then the light put on speed and tore out of sight on a northwest-north heading...
Tailor-Made. While he looked for good men for the jobs at home, Harry Truman succeeded last week in filling two tough diplomatic posts abroad with men practically tailor-made to his specifications. To succeed Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith as ambassador to Moscow, the President wanted someone who would not run wild with ideas of his own, could be depended on to execute instructions to the letter, and to maintain the tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk...
Before the judges wrote finis to the Nürnberg record, the world got one more close-up glimpse of the Nazi nightmare. SS Lieut. General Gottlob Berger, 52, one of the few men Himmler ever called by his first name (translated it means "Praise God"), had set up the dreaded SS Sonderkommando units. One Sonderkom-mando, one of his own officers had testified, used to pick out the prettiest Jewish girls. "They stripped them," he recounted, "injecting them with strychnine, and watched them die." The bodies, said the witness, were then boiled into soap. "Praise God" got 25 years...
...until two harassed men in city clothes stepped from a doorway. "We had hardly begun asking around about alcohol," said one of the revenuers, "when the bell sounded." In the end the revenuers got nothing and the bell-ringing prisoners were freed, after a long and fatherly lecture from Lieut. Leroux...
...Died. Lieut. Colonel Albert William Stevens, 63, holder of the world's altitude record for manned balloons; after long illness; in Redwood City, Calif. A top-notch aerial photographer, Colonel Stevens took the first photograph showing laterally the earth's curvature (1930) and the first pictures showing the moon's shadow on the earth during a total eclipse (1932), went to 72,395 feet in a balloon on Nov. 11, 1935 (with Captain Orvil Anderson) to set a substratosphere record...