Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he arrived in Korea to take command of the 27th, Michaelis had reverted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. A few days later, he had won his second battlefield promotion to full colonel. This time it looked as if he would keep his silver eagles. Said one of his sergeants thoughtfully : "The colonel, he's going to be a big man in this Army-or a dead...
...also honored a white flag'borne by a Communist lieutenant colonel, the first North Korean officer of field grade to surrender since the fighting began. The Communist officer walked into a South Korean command post, explained that he was: 1) annoyed at not having been promoted to the rank of full colonel; 2) sore because his superiors had told him he was not a good artilleryman; 3) convinced that the North Koreans were in a pretty bad way anyhow...
Wald and Krasna were already bubbling with plans and projects. With Hughes's approval, they were going to start a profit-sharing system for top-rank stars, writers and producers, boasted that they would assemble "under one roof, the smartest people since the Greeks." They planned to hire a corps of the nation's top newsmen to scour the world for original story material. Their films would cover the whole scale from social drama (Country Club, a study of Midwest manners & morals) to ribald comedy (Mother Knows Best, a collection of "clean-dirty stories" with Mae West...
Conferred on General Mark Clarlc, Chief of Army Field Forces, by Brazil's President Eurico Gaspar Dutra: the honorary rank of general in the Brazilian army. Invited to dedicate a new industrial exhibit hall named in his honor in Berlin: General George Marshall, wartime U.S. Army Chief of Staff. Greeted in Berlin by hordes of Germans who pelted him with flowers: Philadelphia Adman Frank Howley, onetime Commandant of the city's U.S. sector...
...home last week after six weeks in the U.S., Father Jean Daniélou, SJ.-editor, author and top-rank French intellectual-paused to disagree with some of his U.S.-baiting countrymen...