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When appointed assistant dean, Dr. Fitz had already been an associate professor of Medicine at the University for 14 years. He was a lecturer in the History of Medicine since 1936. He was also a commencement marshal here for 20 years. From 1936 to 1940, Dr. Fitz was Wade Professor of Medicine at Boston University...
While lacking the dash of the late Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny, General Navarre has an advantage over old-line French officers: he was a Resistance fighter and has himself practiced underground tactics...
...Danube army. He was seven times cited for bravery, wears the Croix de Guerre and Resistance Medal with rosette. Since then he has commanded a French armored division and been deputy commander in chief of the French occupation forces in Germany. His most recent job: chief of staff to Marshal Juin at NATO headquarters. Navarre's younger brother, Jacques, recently made a lieutenant colonel, is a battalion commander in Indo-China...
Four years after the war, white-haired, Roman-nosed Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, ailing and half blind, sat in the dock of a British military court in Hamburg, charged with 17 war crimes in Poland and Russia (more than any other general indicted by the Western Allies): condoning the murder of Jews and other minorities, the execution without trial of Russian commissars, the deportation of Russians to slave labor. Many Britons considered the long-delayed trial unfair, and contributed ?1,620 to his defense (Winston Churchill sent ?25), but Manstein was convicted and sentenced to 18 years. Later...
...Desert Rats (20th Century-Fox) is a sort of sequel, made by the same studio, to the 1951 movie The Desert Fox, which was criticized in some quarters for glorifying the German Afrika Korps' Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The new picture is in the nature of an answer to these criticisms. Rommel is again played by James Mason, but the Desert Fox has undergone a change of dramatic color: no longer a generous desert fighter, he is now an arrogant and not very likable character.* The Desert Fox focused on the battle of El Alamein, but The Desert Rats...