Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nightfall they had destroyed 15 MIGs, set a new record for a single day's action (previous record: 13 MIGs downed on July 4, 1952), and brought the month's MIG total to 74. Delighted, the Fifth Air Force's new boss, Lieut. General Samuel Anderson, announced that in 75 days the Sabres had shot down 143 MIGs, with only one Sabre lost in air-to-air combat...
...last year, anxiety-prone Argentine Chess Champion Miguel Najdorf seemed in terrible physical shape all the while he matched moves with chainsmoking U.S. Champion Samuel Reshevsky (TIME, Oct. 20). Najdorf was soundly beaten, eleven games to seven. Soon a rumor, whipped up by the Argentine weekly newspaper Verdad (Truth), swept across the pampas: the nefarious yanquis had doped Najdorf's coffee. Back home, making no sportsmanlike denial of the nasty tiding, Najdorf instead cried for revenge. He finally persuaded Argentina's Chess Federation to put up about $3,000 for his enemy to come south for a comeuppance...
...threshold of discovering the X ray, with scarcely a glimmering of the wonderful and terrible world of radioactivity that lay beyond. At Washington's Smithsonian Institution, itself only 46 years old, a 23-year-old instrument maker named Andrew Kramer applied for a job. Secretary Samuel P. Langley hired him on trial, that October day in 1892, to equip his astrophysical observatory. Last week, the 30-day trial having strung out to 61 years, Andrew Kramer, 84, resigned his post. He had served the U.S. Government longer than any employee in history...
...Guinea and the Marianas, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The definitive U.S. naval history of World War II reaches Volume VIII, the decisive summer of 1944, and the campaigns which brought the Pacific War to the doorstep of Japan (TIME, June...
...Samuel Eliot Morison, the Navy's Boswell, has reached mid-1944 (and Vol. 8) in his projected 14-volume U.S. naval history of World War II, and the Pacific war takes on a grander sweep and a faster pace. For two years, General MacArthur's forces have been straining to break the Bismarcks Barrier. In the nibbling operations in the Gilberts and Marshalls, the Marines have taken a successful but costly bite at Tarawa. Meanwhile, the Navy has been unable to engage any large part of the Japanese fleet since Midway...