Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieut. Colonel Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 42, who resigned his Senate seat last February to do some real fighting overseas, captured a four-man Nazi patrol singlehanded. The grandson of famed post-War I Isolationist Senator Henry Cabot Lodge let his jeep-driver tell the tale: "Colonel Lodge . . . had spotted the Germans a long way off. When we got close to them, Colonel Lodge pulled out a pistol, leaped out of the jeep, and the prisoners threw their hands...
Investigation last week disclosed that 24-year-old Lieut. Magill is genuinely interested in psychology. After the war he hopes to major in it. But all the psychology he knew when he bluffed the Nazi general and his 20,000 into surrendering was what he had learned in a freshman course at Cleveland's Fenn College...
...amazing a performance demands an explanation, and the key perhaps is to be found in the fact that in civil life Lieut. Magill was a student of psychology...
...spoke the august London Times last week of the feat of U.S. Army Lieut. Samuel ("Sammy") Wallace Magill, who, with only 30 men, captured 20,000 Germans and their general in France (TIME. Sept 25). Continued the Times: "The pity is that the exact psychological method . . . remains for the moment uncertain...
First reports of the fracas definitely identified only one participant. He was Lieut. Randolph Dickins Jr., of Bradenton, Fla., 6 ft. 2 in., a hero of the Battle of Midway, who had been a combat-fatigue patient at the Navy's Bethesda for ten weeks, after 42 months' service. After the story had broken, Navy superiors permitted Lieut. Dickins to tell his side...