Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begun about a year ago, when U.S. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, a brilliant staff man, took over the China Theater from General Joseph W. Stilwell. Its broad purpose was to give China a modern army that could meet the Japanese on equal terms. The work went forward under the title of Chinese Combat Command. It rapidly became one of the most remarkable training projects in military history...
...commanders did not relish their paradoxical position. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander in the China theater, had discussed his difficulties in Washington, urging a clearer directive and a more forthright policy. He did not get what he wanted. Last week, on his way back to China, the General did some public thinking about the U.S. stake in China's civil strife. "There is no doubt," he said, "that the turn of events in an area embracing half the world's population must inevitably affect our country-economically, psychologically and perhaps militarily." In Shanghai Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid...
Suffering Superintendent. Neither the physical nor mental state of West Point football was much when Brigadier General Robert Eichelberger (now Lieut. General, commanding the Eighth Army in Tokyo) became superintendent of the Academy in 1940. Watching the team take drubbing after drubbing, the general blew a fuse: "There never has been and there never will be a time when West Point will look with complacency on a 45-0 beating by Cornell and a 48-0 trouncing by Pennsylvania, especially in one football season." He spent a month persuading ex-Army Backfield Coach Red Blaik, whose single-wing formation...
Younger brother Victor, now 28, didn't bring his saxophone into the band until he organized a rival one called Lombardo's Canadian Royals. Sloe-eyed Baby Sister Rose Marie, 19, joined as a singer in 1942. A brother-in-law, Lieut. Kenny Gardner, will be back as singer when he is discharged from the Army. That leaves one brother out: Joe, who can't play anything. Joe likes interior decorating, so the Roosevelt hired him to decorate the Grill...
...Lancet, Britain's Lieut. Colonel F. M. Lipscomb wrote: "The most conspicuous psychological abnormality [of adults and children] was a degradation of moral standards characterized by increasing selfishness . . . more or less proportional to the degree of undernutrition. . . . Even among those not grossly undernourished, there was a blunting of sensitivity to scenes of cruelty and death. Children who had grown up in concentration camps were almost unmoved by the sight of these horrors...