Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look at the second line of command shows how dizzily history's pendulum has swung back. The new air operations chief helped plan the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a former official of the Home Ministry which ran Japan's Gestapo-like KempeiTai (Thought Police). The secretary of the JCS was once secretary to Premier Hideki Tojo, hanged 5½ years ago for war crimes. Half of the new army officers and three-fourths of the naval officers fought against the U.S. in World...
Producer Stanley Kramer attempted the almost impossible. Four studios had dropped option on the bestselling novel before Kramer picked it up, mainly because the U.S. Navy had refused approval of the picture. In return for the Navy's cooperation (Says Kramer: "I was practically in command of Pearl Harbor for five weeks"), the moviemakers had to endure some niggling at minor points. In the outcome, even the detailed 'tween-decks griping of Herman Wouk's novel has been effectively realigned into a proper topside salute to all things Navy...
...three men are all prominent scientists. Robert J. Rutman, assistant professor of Biochemistry, had done secret atomic research at California during the war; Irving H. Wagman is an outstanding physiologist; and William H. Pearl man, associate professor of Biochemistry is one of the world's leading experts on hormones. Of the three, Rutman is the only one not definitely known to have abandoned Communism long before...
...journalist; after long illness; in Saugerties, N.Y. A lifelong crony of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, Author Bigelow was easily quoted on dictatorship, boating, war and nudism ("To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women"), once urged the U.S. to make F.D.R. President for life, and before Pearl Harbor, predicted Axis victory in World...
Lawyer Adams graduated from the University of South Dakota Law School ('35), but never went into private practice. Commissioned an Army First Lieutenant soon after Pearl Harbor, Adams fought in North Africa and Europe, earned a Bronze Star. After the war, he became national director of the Young Republicans, then clerk of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and in 1949 moved to the Pentagon...