Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home, Fido. In Pensacola, Fla., Navy Lieut. C. J. Sabel was indignant at being fined $12.50 for reckless driving. The chauffeur: his shirted and cravatted Great Dane...
...Japanese girls along the carp-filled Imperial moat, lolled amorously on the grass of Hibiya Park, made love in the back of Army jeeps. It was hard to remember that they had once been scheduled to fight their way into Honshu at just this season. But Eighth Army commander Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger remembered...
...Hope. Servicemen still in the Pacific hoped that this would be the last journey for their dead comrades. So did the only war widow who has yet visited her husband's grave in a Pacific battlefield. Said Red Cross Worker Virginia Matthews, whose husband, Second Lieut. Ernest A. Matthews, died at Tarawa...
...Tokyo last week Mrs. Fujiko Homma, wife of Lieut. General Masaharu Homma, knew that she would soon be a widow. She had fought with quiet tenacity to save the General's life, had broken an ancient Japanese custom-according to which wives should be seen, not heard-by appearing in court and giving a newspaper interview in her husband's defense. With the submissive dignity of a Japanese lady, she related that she was his second wife, that she had borne him two children -a girl, now 18, and a boy now 16, both now attending school...
...Kentucky is a first-rate comic idea, but it requires a comic genius as great as Gogol's to handle it adequately. Ex-Navy Lieut. Jesse Stuart (Taps for Private Tussie, etc.) is no Gogol. But he knows Kentucky hill life inside out (he is a native son). His ability to turn what he knows into corn-fattened pathos and good-natured farce makes Foretaste of Glory a very likable book...