Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changed to enthusiasm as Ibsen's murky poetic drama, in a fresh translation by Norman Ginsbury, took on pace and clarity. When Peer made love to fat, giggling Anitra, the audience whooped. When he was crowned Emperor in a madhouse, everybody got goose pimples. With Ralph Richardson brilliant as Peer and Dame Sybil Thorndike a tender, humorous Aase, the play swept on to a 20-minute ovation...
When he was relieved, Ralph Smith flew 4,000 miles back to Pearl Harbor. There the Army's Lieut. General Robert C. Richardson Jr. promptly gave him command of another division-an obvious note of confidence in Ralph Smith and in the Army v. the Marines...
Military Strategy. On the second day, in the spacious, book-lined living room of the Holmes house, there was a brief military conference (90 minutes) with General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral William F. Halsey of the Third Fleet and Lieut. General Robert C. (Nellie) Richardson Jr., Army commander in the Pacific Ocean Areas. On the third day Franklin Roosevelt called in reporters for his only press conference of the trip, seating the newsmen on the lawn of the Holmes estate, under the palms, from which all coconuts had been thoughtfully sheared lest they drop on unprotected heads. The only noteworthy...
...Japs were formidably dug in on nine large islets which form the backbone of the 22-mile-long atoll. Twenty-four hours after the initial landing, battle-hardened Marine veterans of the Pacific Fleet and green but tough Army units, under the remote command of Lieut. General Robert C. Richardson Jr., were still fighting desperate Japs...
Said the New York Times's William D. Richardson, astonished at this show of virtuosity: "The paper shortage doesn't permit a detailed recitation...