Word: matthew
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...Corps (one Marine, two Army and two R.O.K. divisions), which had been evacuated from Hungnam to Pusan and Pohang, was made a part of the Eighth Army. Thus, Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway, the Eighth Army's new commander, became MacArthur's overall ground commander in Korea. After a brief stop in Tokyo, Paratrooper Ridgway last week arrived in Korea to take over his command. Said he to his staff: "You will have my utmost. I expect yours." Said he to South Korea's Syngman Rhee: "I aim to stay...
...command of the Eighth Army, MacArthur announced the appointment of Lieut. General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, U.S. pioneer of the airborne assault in World War II, who was in Washington last week as deputy to Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins. Born at Fort Monroe, Va. 55 years ago, Ridgway planned the first large-scale U.S. parachute-troop operation in Sicily (1943). Through no fault of his, that one was a snafu, but he kept on tirelessly pushing the airborne doctrine, jumped with his troops (the 82nd Airborne Division) in Normandy, later became commander of an airborne corps...
...James Matthew Barrie's Peter Pan, originally produced in London in 1904 with the late Nina Boucicault as the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, ran for 145 performances. The play has been revived in London every Christmas season since, except in the blitz years of '40 and '41. On Broadway, Maude Adams played Peter over 300 times between 1905 and 1916. Marilyn Miller and Eva Le Gallienne had flings at revivals in the '20s and '30s. Last week, the current Broadway production, with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, played its 238th performance, setting...
...take home enough material to do extra work, after the regular ten-hour day, in order to earn more than the standard $3 per week." But Harper's could wax indignant about the plight of Vassar girls who had no clothes closets in their dormitory, and for whom Matthew Vassar had prescribed "two nails on the walls of their rooms, one for their school dress and one for their best dress...
...conjunction with the Boston Symphony, the Glee Club will also put on the lit. Matthew Passion on March 23 and 24, and then will travel to Washington to entertain on Pan-American Day. Returning to Boston, they will present the Berlioz Requiem at the final Thursday night rehearsal at Symphony Hall...