Word: okinawa
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Before the speechifying started, the Bowl audience was entertained by a lively, two-hour amateur musical show called The Good Road, in which 160 Buchmanites skillfully compounded propaganda for "God-control" from such various elements as Swiss yodelers, Joan of Arc, Lincoln, Washington, the Magna Carta, a G.I. on Okinawa, and an average family...
...first time in its 103-year history, the U.S. Naval Academy selected a war widow to be color girl for June Week ceremonies. The girl: Mrs. Katherine Wainwright Austin, 26, a registered nurse of North Andover, Mass., whose husband, a Marine flier, was killed at Okinawa...
Turning to the 30-ft. mural behind him depicting Simón Bolívar's inaugural in 1821 as Colombia's President, George Marshall recalled that Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. had died leading U.S. troops on Okinawa in World War II. That Buckner, who gave his life, bore "the name of your great Liberator," he said, "certainly indicates something of our common purpose and our common bond...
...Beau. Last October, she got a Reno divorce. She returned to New York, and with her sister Isobel moved back into the Third Avenue apartment where she had lived with Sears. Winthrop, who had gone to Yale, had worked as a roughneck in Texas oilfields, and been wounded off Okinawa, began...
...twin brother was killed on Okinawa...