Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, the former commander of all the German land, sea and air forces in Norway," he an nounced. "Your famous TIME magazine had my picture on the front page, and they described me as the master of land, sea & air." In the course of questioning by General Collins, Falkenhorst later explained that he had received a copy of TIME, containing his picture, from a friend in Sweden. "That is a very excellent magazine," he declared, "and it was a very satisfactory article about me - very satisfactory." Falkenhorst, who said there was never any doubt in his mind...
...Master of Arts: Leland Stowe, New York, foreign correspondent: "A correspondent on many fronts, a prophet who in 1933 told an unheeding world that Nazi means...
Doctor of Science: Frederick E. Terman, Director of the Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard; on leave as Executive Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University: "A master of the mysterious science of radio communications, a Stanford professor on loan to Harvard; he directs a vast technical establishment created to devise secret Instruments...
Bill Robinson, 67-year-old past master of tap, now dancing on Broadway, told an interviewer that his real name was Luther, and recalled how he had changed it: "I said to myself, 'I'll never go about the world with nobody callin' me Luther,' so I caught my brother whose name was Bill and I gave him a good whippin'. I told him that from now on his name was Percy and mine was Bill. He's in North Carolina how, and he's still Percy Robinson...
Theresa Helburn, directress of the Theatre Guild, copped an honorary Master's degree from Tufts. Other kudos-collectors: Secretary of State Stettinius, Doctor of Laws (Columbia); Georgia's Senator Walter F. George, Doctor of Laws (Columbia...