Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General William Morris Hoge, 63, will become board chairman of Cleveland's Interlake Iron Corp., nation's No. 1 independent pig-iron producer (sales: $125 million), filling a post vacant since 1951, when Leigh Willard died. A West Pointer ('16) with a civil engineering degree from M.I.T. ('22), topflight Army Engineer Hoge served under MacArthur as first chief of the Philippine Corps of Engineers (1935), built the Alcan Highway (1942), was a member of the group that planned and operated Omaha Beachhead on Dday. He also commanded the armored division that captured the Remagen Bridge (first...
Commanding the flight from the lead plane was 50-year-old Major General Archie J. Old Jr., who coordinated the trip, kept in constant radio contact direct with LeMay's headquarters in Omaha. Texas-born Archie Old, like Curt LeMay, is no West Pointer, was an auto dealer with a reserve commission in the Air Corps until he was called to active duty in September 1940. Squarejawed, blue-eyed, thoroughly able, he rose with phenomenal speed in wartime to command the Eighth Air Force's 96th Bomb Group at a ripe 36, led the first shuttle-bomb raid...
There were only two pins in the bout, one for each team. Tom (T.T.) Myers pinned Joe Steinzig for the JV five-pointer in the 123-pound class, while John Watkins pinned John Sachs for the freshmen in the 130-pound division...
...Jumbos jumped into the lead after Hastings opened the scoring, and was ahead or tied until the nine minute mark. Then Hastings hit with a lay up to put the Crimson in the lead, 17-16. Muncaster added a free throw, Canty a two-pointer, Muncaster two more quick free throws, and Woolston a field goal to increase the margin...
...region of utter clarity and so have only relative truth. They are valid so long as they are assigned their proper place. They are not to be mistaken for absolute truth. They are used to communicate the shadow of what has been realized. Every word, every concept is a pointer which points beyond itself. The sign should not be mistaken for the thing signified. The signpost is not the destination...