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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, in the retreat to Dunkirk, he was operational commander of "Mac Force," the improvised formation covering the British right flank, and was mentioned in dispatches. Back in England he shot up to be the youngest lieutenant general in the British army. Believing he had risen too quickly, he asked for and got a combat command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF MALAYA: Smiling Tiger | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...Russell as the infamous lady bandit Belle Starr, "who can ride and shoot like a man." When men are not falling dead in front of Belle's six-shooters, they are swooning at her feet. She is pursued by Outlaw Bob Dalton (Scott Brady), a lesser outlaw named Mac (Forrest Tucker) and a suave professional gambler (George Brent). Belle so inflames these various characters that they get to uttering such phrases to each other as: "No man takes a woman away from me and lives." During all this, Belle, dressed in tight black spangles, manages to find time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...troops in Korea (i.e., training Korean forces to maintain internal security) was almost completed and that the troops could be withdrawn. Later, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, MacArthur testified that he had concurred in the decision to withdraw the troops from Korea. Around the time of the Mac-Arthur report, State Department's Far East ern experts and policy planners (among them John Davies, whose role in Far Eastern policy is still controversial) worked up a new policy paper (NSC-8/2) for the National Security Council. In it, MacArthur's advice was misrepresented: he was quoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE PRE-KOREA RECORD | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...written by Mac Cache and Joseph L. Morse, Manhattan book distributors and publishers (Unicorn Press), the ad asked the paper to switch because "there is genuine discord . . . between the Times and the vast majority of its readers." Eisenhower, said the ad, "has gone so far off the deep end politically as to support such men as Rush Holt and Chapman Revercomb, who repulsively stand for what the Times has always courageously fought." Cache and Morse urged the Times's readers to "besiege our favorite newspaper with thousands of letters, cards, wires" asking the paper to "reverse its stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Question & Answer | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Early in the third period Mac Nwariaku scored the first o this two goals when he dribbled and headed around both Crimson fullbacks, and beat Taylor from about ten feet...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Outclassed Crimson Booters Succumb to Dartmouth, 5-0 | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

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