Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incompatible. In Reno, Nev., nine-year-old runaway Melvin Rogers Lewis Jr. arrived from Oakland, Calif., announced that he had come to get a divorce from his parents...
...than gnomish, taut "Pete" Mitscher. He had commanded the Hornet, from which Jimmy Doolittle launched his B-25s to bomb Tokyo in early 1942. He had fought through the Solomons. For over a year he commanded Task Force 58, spreading destruction from the Ryukyus to New Guinea. In one nine-month period it sank 88 warships, 282 merchant ships, and destroyed 4,425 planes...
...cool, little man had all but burned himself out. He came home for a rest, then was ordered to duty as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air. He had always detested paper work, and by December he was back on sea duty as commander of the Eighth Fleet. Nine months later, he took over the Atlantic Fleet...
...rnberg International Military Tribunal acquitted three top Nazis-Radio Spokesman Hans Fritzsche, Banker Hjalmar Schacht, Diplomat Franz von Papen-of war crimes. In Nürnberg last week, the lantern-jawed Fritzsche found his fellow Germans less forgiving. A denazification court sentenced Fritzsche to nine years at hard labor for "political crimes against the German people," stripped him of civil rights and property (including the privilege of ever, again owning an automobile...
...Seton Hall (South Orange, N. J.), Alabama and West Virginia; firehouse Rhode Island State (won 11; lost 1); Oregon State (19-2). Illinois' Whiz Kids (TIME, Dec. 23), a flop at the season's start, were now in the running with Wisconsin and Michigan for the Big Nine title...