Word: lymans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three men got together in a tiny Manhattan studio this week to discuss a widely unread book. The occasion was CBS's long-run (15 years), longhair radio show Invitation to Learning. The three men: Critic John Mason Brown, Essayist Clifton Fadiman and Moderator Lyman Bryson...
...officer who will take his place as chief of the U.S. (and United Nations) Far East Command is General Lyman Lemnitzer, 55, who had followed Taylor as ground forces commander in the Far East. Lemnitzer learned parachuting at the age of 50, when he took command of the 11th Airborne Division. He was born in Honesdale, Pa., graduated from West Point in 1920. His most publicized wartime experience occurred when he and General Mark Clark waded ashore before the invasion of North Africa. When Clark lost his pants, Lemnitzer lent him his. More important and much less well known...
...Died. Vice Admiral Lyman A. Thackrey, 57, former chairman of the Joint Amphibious Board. World War II senior U.S. naval planner for the Normandy landings, commander of Amphibious Group 3 in the 1950-51 landings at Inchon and Iwon in Korea; of cancer; in San Diego...
...currency, making separate trade treaties with his Russian pals, and boasting that while China was depressed his Manchuria was booming, the idea began to get around that tough Kao was more consistent than correct. In 1953 Mao pulled him back to Peking, making him head of a lyman State Planning Commission. He was last seen in public some 15 months ago, and when Mao last June abolished the system of regional governments, including Manchuria, Kao was not mentioned...
...Lieut. General Lyman Lemnitzer, 55, named to Taylor's old job as ground forces commander in the Far East. In World War II he ran up a fine staff record but, as an antiaircraft officer, landed no front-line commands. Grimly, he turned to the paratroops (at 50) and made five qualifying jumps, triumphantly took over a fighting division in Korea...