Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed as the "prototype" for Ernest Hemingway's Montgomery*-gulping Colonel Richard Cantwell of Across the River and Into the Trees, was named president of Market Relations Network, Inc., Manhattan publicity firm. A West Pointer, "Buck" Lanham was given command of the 4th Infantry Division's 22nd Regiment shortly after Dday. The division, with Hemingway attached to it as a correspondent, saw plenty of action (e.g., the Normandy breakthrough, Hurtgen Forest, the Bulge), and Lanham received a chestful of decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross. After the war, he became staff director of Defense Secretary James Forrestal...
...frequently played the Presbyterian Mission at Sungkiang, an all-Chinese team captained by onetime Premier Tang Shao-yi. Early competition was also found in the crews of clipper ships, later from visiting warships of the U.S. Navy, and finally mainly from men in the famed 4th Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps. The Fourth of July was always the big game of the year, the highlight of the American community's celebration that followed the consul-general's reception and the big party at the American Club...
...Programming. The album's ten sections, arranged and conducted by Richard Bales, of the Washington, D.C. National Gallery Orchestra, underscores different facets of the war. First is General Lee's Grand March, a frothy two-step that might have come from Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment. Next come wistful and militant soldiers' songs, e.g., Bonnie Blue Flag and Somebody's Darling. Others are drenched with sentiment; still others suggest the progressive bitterness of the occupation...
...time. Dr. Aebersold believes that 2% of the body's substance is an ample allowance for the part that sticks around for as long as a year. A human body, he says, should not be considered permanent in a material sense. It is more like a famous old regiment, all of whose members have changed many times over, while the regiment retains its organizational identity. In a larger sense, says Dr. Aebersold. the atoms that each human body is made of were once parts of other living things−e.g., dogs, whales, birds. The atoms that made up Plato...
...intellectual vaga bondage, through the labyrinthine ways of Marxism, to safe harbor in London, where he will "live happily ever after, until the Great Mushroom appears in the skies." Along the way Koestler compiles from skulls, rusted barbed wire and interviews with shattered survivors, the history of his old regiment-the commissars, apparatchiki, intellectual spivs, poets, peasants, pimps, betrayers and betrayed, who composed his "crusade without a cross...