Word: peans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strictly a virtuoso; a technician who is able to race brilliantly through Liszt Rhapsodies and Chopin Etudes." As recently as 1951, Manhattan critics felt that he had plenty of speed but not enough depth, and Julius returned to his Left Bank apartment in Paris and more Euro pean appearances...
World War II: Known as a good infantryman who knew how to train others, went to England in 1942 to command all U.S. ground forces in the Euro pean Theater of Operations. In October 1942, in a daring sortie, went by submarine to the North African coast, paddled a canoe ashore, where with Bob Murphy his helped to plan Allied invasion landings with French officers; lost his pants on the way back when the canoe capsized, but won promotion to lieutenant general, thus at 46 became the youngest three-star general in U.S. history up to that time. (His record...
Coach Norm Shepard will start the game team that he used against Pean Wednesday Ed Condon and Ed Krinsky at guards, Dick Lionette at center, and Gerry Murphy and Bill Dennis at forwards. Despite its inability to stop Ernie Buck, this quintet worked very well together against Penn, and Shepard feels it is the strongest combination he has yet used...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller; chiefly interesting as a landmark in Euro pean pessimism in the first aftermath of World War II (TIME...