Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candidate or Chowderhead? Even before Rockefeller left Washington in 1955, seasoned New York politicians thought they saw the start of a Rockefeller-for-Something movement. The clue: in 1953 knowledgeable Lieut. Governor Frank C. Moore was persuaded to step out of a bright future in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, step into the Rockefeller Government Affairs Foundation as president, a position in which he would be within hailing distance for political counsel. Political geiger counters began to click in earnest last year, when Rockefeller volunteered to help build a stadium for the soon-to-leave-Flatbush Brooklyn Dodgers...
...Lieut. Colonel G. W. Meates was attracted to the Darent River site by an old report that workmen digging postholes more than 200 years ago found a mosaic floor. Moving in with a crew of diggers, he quickly proved that the 18th century fence builders had really stumbled on something. Little by little he uncovered the lower parts of a magnificent villa that was probably inhabited for 300 years. Beside mosaic flooring, it had sculpture of imported Greek marble, a fine painting of water nymphs, and a heated bath...
...Culbertson system, would beat Lenz and any partner, using the Official System. Under Culbertson's relentless public needling, Lenz reluctantly accepted the challenge, chose as his partner hefty Oswald Jacoby, later famed as an expert on canasta and poker as well as bridge. Named as referee was Lieut. Alfred M. Gruenther, a West Point instructor and part-time bridge tournament director who rose to become Supreme Allied Commander in Europe...
With a grin, Lieut. Don Fraasa of Cincinnati extracted a small Stars and Stripes from the sleeve pocket of his flight suit. "We show the flag," he said. "Hope it scares them...
...Died. Lieut. General John C. H. Lee, U.S.A. (ret.), 71, General Eisenhower's chief supply officer in the European Theater of Operations during World War II, who implemented the fabulous air and sea operation that kept U.S. troops on the Continent supplied with food and the material of war; of a coronary occlusion; in York, Pa. After the war, hard-driving "Courthouse" Lee commanded the Mediterranean Theater from headquarters in Italy, survived loud accusations in the press that he abused his authority by inflating rank's privileges. Following his retirement in 1947, Lee became active among the laity...