Word: raymonde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...command decisions were consistently and uncannily right. If he erred, it was in not pressing his views upon his superiors, Admirals Raymond A. Spruance and William F. Halsey, in the great battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf-both occasions when too much of the Japanese fleet got away. In all naval war there has been no bolder or more dramatic decision than Mitscher's, in the Philippine Sea, to violate the hallowed blackout rule and light up the fleet like Coney Island to help homing flyers find their carriers. Characteristically, he took this crushing responsibility with only...
...Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose between his ever-loving wife and a Central European charmer, while CBS began the run of a new series, Climax, with an examination of the manners and morals (both terrible) of Southern California. The Climax play was based on Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, and starred Teresa Wright and Dick Powell who played the tough private eye as if he were trying the impossible task of parodying Mickey Spillane. Climax lost what little connection it had with reality when one of the corpses -unaware that the camera...
...more or less successful attempt to show the fuzzy, slogannaire thinking of the Bureau legislative chairman Charles X. Miller, who took credit for initiating the charges, Raymond A. McConnell, Jr., editor of the Lincoln Evening Journal, reported on an interview he had with this Bureau representative...
...Washington, D.C., one morning last week, Principal Mildred Green of the Raymond elementary school solemnly walked into her auditorium, faced her audience of new pupils, and calmly began a special opening-day speech. She chose her words carefully, for this year, for the first time, her once all-white school was going to be 50% Negro. "This," said she, "isn't a school until you make it one. What kind of a school it will be depends upon you . . . You can make it happy by being fine and friendly and kind to each other...
Principal Green's words apparently had their effect at Raymond. More important, they seemed to set the tone for the entire capital. Some 3,000 Negroes were transferred to white schools last week, and plans were afoot to desegregate the whole school system by next year. By week's end, hardly a protest had been heard. Reported Assistant Superintendent Norman J. Nelson: "We don't know of one single thing untoward happening...