Word: richardson
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William Bruce Richardson...
Died. Henrietta Richardson Robertson (pen name: Henry Handel Richardson), seventyish, Australian novelist (Ultima Thule) who lived in England but turned for subject matter to her native country; in Hastings, Sussex. A striver for Flaubertian impersonality, she achieved it so well that few readers guessed the author...
...given away some military secrets (the code-breaking "Magic"). But more than anything else, it had disclosed the improvisations of U.S. foreign policy and how ill prepared the Army & Navy had been to back up the strong talk of the State Department. (Said Frank Knox to Admiral Richardson: "We have never been ready but we have always won.") Where liaison did exist between departments, it had been almost by accident. Army, Navy, State and White House had gone their various wayward ways, until the climax of mistakes on that Sunday morning on Oahu...
Last week, in the opinion of tidy, martinettish Lieut. General Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr., chief of Army forces in the mid-Pacific, Stars and Stripes went too far. It headlined a story of the Manila riots: "Patterson [Secretary of War] Branded Number One Enemy by Jeering Mob." "Nellie" Richardson forthwith forbade the editors "to refer in your newspaper discourteously to the President of the U.S., the Secretary of War, the Chief of Staff of the Army or to others in authority in the Army...
Editorial writers promptly dropped all editorials, the gripe column. General Richardson hurriedly explained that he "was willing" to let them gripe, he just did not want them to call names. Said Editor (Master Sergeant) Chick Avedon: "That's different...