Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's legislature created its Civilian Defense Commission in May. It was supposed to operate on an appropriation of $100,000. To run the show, Governor Dewey had picked Lucius De Bignon Clay, the wiry, sharp-nosed, imperious West Pointer who accepted the chairmanship of the commission as a sideline to his new null job as chairman of Continental...
Bearded, intrepid West Pointer Hood led his troops in the grand manner-and suffered the consequences. At Gettysburg he was wounded in the arm; at Chickamauga he lost his right leg. In the heat of battle, "he was transformed from a shy, awkward young general perplexed by the minutiae of paper work, tactical details and camp routine into a fearless and almost terrible leader who inspired his men, to heroic feats." Unfortunately for the Southern cause, Confederate President Jefferson Davis mistook bravery for generalship, put the crippled Hood in command of the Army of Tennessee in the midst...
...LeMay picked handsome, high-polished Thomas Sarsfield Power, 45, a bold, skillful pilot and something the Old Man is not: a diplomat and smoother-over. LeMay's chief of staff, tall, soft-spoken Major General August Walter Kissner, 44, is two other things LeMay is not: a West Pointer and a man who can do paper work and like...
...25th Infantry Division had never retreated unless it was ordered by higher command, and most of the professionals on the Korean front thought they knew the reason why: the 2yth Regiment had something no other outfit had. That something was its commander, a lean, pleasantly hard-bitten West Pointer named John Hersey Michaelis, 38. Last week, the men of Colonel Michaelis' 27th combat team tangled with a capable and battle-tested foe, a 45-year-old North Korean lieutenant general named Kim Mu Chong, onetime commanding general of the Chinese Communists' famed Eighth Route Army...
...Pointer. So far television has found no way to compete with radio's fast-breaking, flexible news coverage. Except for its dramatic United Nations telecasts, TV has contented itself with scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront. John Cameron Swayze on NBC-TV's Camel News Caravan explains battle positions on his map with the aid of animated planes, tanks and troops...