Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curtain Is Up. Artillery pops behind us. A few seconds go by and then, as if teacher were pointing out something on the blackboard with a mile-long pointer, three smoke plumes rise from the crest of Huilungshan...
Then Secretary Stettinius led newsmen, photographers and team into a conference room, and, pointer in hand, showed a chart of the State Department reorganization. One hopeful correspondent interjected: "Winston Churchill has made another speech. . . ." Ed Stettinius brushed her aside with a wave of his classroom pointer. The State Department's big news was the new State Department...
General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, commandless since his removal from the China-Burma-India Theater (TIME, Nov. 13), heard with pleasure that his name was still active there. In a campaign he had planned, his son, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., infantryman, West Pointer ('33), received the Legion of Merit for "meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services" in the Hukawng and Mogaung Valleys. In command of a Mars Task Force unit spearheading the advance on Mandalay was his son-in-law, Colonel Ernest F. Easterbrook, infantryman, West Pointer...
...took a course in the Field Artillery School (which was paying off last week on the Siegfried Line). He was the first non-West Pointer to instruct in infantry tactics at the Military Academy, where his example of perseverance was cited to discouraged cadets. He got an early lesson in air-power potentials when he instructed Langley Field officers in infantry tactics (and the experiences came in handy when he laid the groundwork for the first...
...year-old Army veteran, V.M.I.-man and West Pointer, possessor of the D.S.M., D.S.C., Silver Star and Purple Heart from World War I and one of the service's least reliable tempers, Eisenhower gave command of an army. Some days after the Germans had announced the fact to the world, General Patton was officially unveiled as leader of the victorious Third Army in its dash to the Seine. After that, no one could complain...