Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow-traveling professors, his enthusiasm for raising the already confiscatory rates of the inheritence tax, his desire to put our universities under federal control by grants of federal tax monies, and his repetitions of the Communist slogan of a 'classless society,' will not be astonished at his desire to regiment even those physically handicapped." (From the February 26 issue...
...either be a general or a dead colonel," cracked G.I.s last summer about the hottest regimental commander among U.N. forces in Korea. At Taegu's bloody "bowling alley," John Hersey Michaelis (rhymes with regale us), better known as "Mike," and his redoubtable 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, now better known as "The Fire Brigade," fought bravely and brilliantly to help hold the Pusan perimeter. Sinewy Mike Michaelis won a battlefield promotion to full colonel, and the D.S.C. for "extraordinary heroism" under fire...
Brigadier General Joseph S. Bradley, 50, commander of 25th Division: West Point, 1918; stationed in Philippines and China in 1920's and 1930's; chief of staff, 32nd Division, commander 126th Infantry Regiment in New Guinea, World War II; postwar service in the Pacific and at Fort Benning, Ga.; went to Korea as assistant commander of 25th Division...
...slow, bulky camera could catch no British armies in action, but it could catch such mood shots as "A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery," the shallow "Valley of Death," littered with cannonballs after the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the threatening magnificence of the proud syth Regiment drawn up on parade with its tents in the background. In the leisurely pace of the war, commanders had plenty of time to put up with Fenton's elaborate posing requirements. When he photographed General Sir George Brown, commander of the British Light Division, Fenton noted appreciatively: "He was very...
Yale and Army, one and two in 1950, will once again be slight favorites both in the afternoon field events in Yale's Coxe Cage in New Haven and evening races at the 102nd Regiment Armory in New York. Ten Eastern colleges are participating. The Elis have defending champions in sprinter Corson Ellis, vaulter Neil King, their second-best vaulter, and an almost intact two-mile relay team. The West Pointers return with titlists Dick Shea, two miler, and Harold Shultz, hurdler...