Word: rets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside Job. The Paris press, suddenly waking up to what France-Soir called "the most extraordinary enigma in criminal history," screamed MURDER. As a horde of reporters and cameramen built the case into a sensational story, a stocky, methodical detective named Edmond Bascou, one of the Sûreté Nationale's best, took over the investigation...
Died. Brigadier General Marlborough Churchill (Ret.), 68, during the closing months of World War I chief of U.S. Army Intelligence, distant kin of Britain's Winston; after long illness; in Manhattan...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) Evans Fordyce Carlson, 51, gaunt, battle-scarred onetime commander of "Carlson's (Gung Ho) Raiders," whose exploits as a commander on Makin and Guadalcanal bolstered U.S. morale in World War II's early days, whose penchant for leadership in Communist-fringe organizations dismayed his fellow generals of the U.S. Marine Corps; of a heart attack; in Portland...
...year-old Cleveland writer on foreign affairs (Mainsprings of World Politics), and president of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, was made president of the Foreign Policy Association, top-ranking citizens' group for the study of international problems. His predecessor: 72-year-old Major General Frank R. McCoy (ret...
Colonel Melvin Hall, U.S.A.A.F (ret.), has led the life that small boys and commuters dream of. His father, a successful Vermont businessman, was a passionate canoeist, boxer, bicyclist, motorist and traveler, and he shared those hobbies with his son just as soon as Melvin was out of diapers. At twelve, young Hall made his first tour of Europe (in a Pan-hard); at 17, he was ridden clear around the world; at 18 he attended George V's Coronation Durbar (1911) in India, watched the imperial sweat drip from the ermine band of the royal crown, while rajahs...