Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SHAEF, however, the Supreme Commander's hard-working chief of staff, Lieut. General Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, made it clear that the official U S. -Russian junction would not be a haphazard patrol contact, and that it would not be casually reported. The time and place had been agreed on: the announcement would be a joint fanfare from Washington, London and Moscow...
...Supreme Headquarters, Ike's Chief of Staff, trim, brilliant Lieut. General Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, summed up the Ruhr victory: "The largest double envelopment in military history...
...years the House of Savoy has stood divided by a polite but firm family feud. Last week the faction headed by Crown Prince Umberto, Lieut. General of the Realm, was enjoying a temporary upper hand over the faction represented by his 45-year-old playboy cousin, Prince Aimone di Savoia, Duke of Aosta...
Monstrous holes in the skull and other bones are now being mended with a sort of bone sawdust obtained from the patient himself. Toronto's Lieut. Colonel Stuart Douglas Gordon, 43, who developed the method, has even managed "rebuilding [of] the better part of a soldier's skull, including a completely new eye-socket and cheekbone." The material which Colonel Gordon uses, called cancellous bone, is the spongy substance found between hard bone and marrow. The body's biggest storehouse of it is the hip bone. In its new site, cancellous bone becomes hard and fixed within...
Killed in Action. Lieut. Alfred C. Blozis, 26, big (6 ft. 6 in., 250 lb.), towheaded champ shot-putter (his stillstand ing indoor record: 56 ft. 4½ in. in 1941), ex-pro football star (New York Giants); by German machine-gun fire when he waded through hip-deep snow to look for a missing comrade; in France's Vosges Mountains...