Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiering around the world. In World War II the 45th was a crack assault division. In eight campaigns, from Sicily to Munich, it made four landings (Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, the French Riviera), spent 511 days in action, suffered 20,993 casualties (second only to the 3rd Division). The Nazi army learned to respect and fear the men of the fast-stepping "Falcon" Division,* who overran 1,000 square miles of Sicily in one three-week action. ("Don't you ever sleep?'' asked a German P.W.) The folks at home knew the men of the 45th...
What man in history has done most to change the face of the earth? Politicians might name Augustus Caesar or Adolf Hitler. Military men might name Napoleon Bonaparte, or perhaps General "Tooey" Spaatz, whose U.S. bomber fleets leveled Nazi cities in World War II. But among builders, there is no disagreement. The man who has done more than anyone else to change the face of the earth lives in a one-story frame house at an elevation of 2,695 ft. in Boise, Idaho (long. 116° 11 min. W., lat. 43° 34 min. N.). He is Harry Winford...
Born. To Paul Reynaud, 75, Premier of France at the time of the Nazi invasion in 1940, now one of three Vice Premiers under Premier Joseph Laniel, and his second wife. Christiane Mabire Reynaud, 40, his onetime secretary: their third child (his fourth, a son; in Paris. Name: Alexandre. Weight...
...judge found him guilty, ordered him to pay De Gasperi 1 lira in damages, $480 as a fine and court costs, and sentenced Guareschi to a year in jail. Said Don Camillo's creator: "I will not appeal. I will take up the knapsack with which the Nazi SS sent me to a German concentration camp, and will go to prison...
Henry Koerner came to the U.S. 16 years ago, a refugee from the Nazi pogroms in his native Vienna. He designed propaganda posters for the OWI and OSS during World War II, soon afterwards earned his present reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful and skillful painters. His first fame rested on pictures just this side of surrealism: a barber treating a bearded customer to a violin concert, children sledding on tailors' dummies, a pregnant girl trapped in a jungle gym. What gave weight to their gloomy wit was the exactitude of Koerner's observation...