Word: schofield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inconsistency left Army-Navy relations about the same as ever. Anonymous Navy spokesmen, chuckling deeply, thought that the Army couldn't possibly ban the movie from its screens because it had spent a lot of the taxpayers' money helping to produce scenes at Hawaii's Schofield Barracks. Anonymous Army spokesmen, with a knowing air, thought that the Navy (which has joined the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency in banning The Moon Is Blue) might be making a record for the future. Coming soon: The Caine Mutiny, a movie about sex, misery and a fumbling Annapolis-bred skipper...
Transferred into Company G at Schofield Barracks in Honolulu, Prew is instantly informed by Captain Dana ("Dynamite") Holmes that he cannot go his own way. Captain Holmes, a boxing fanatic who wants his company to win the regimental championship, knows that Prew is a first-class middleweight, and insists that he box for his new outfit. Prew, who quit fighting after he blinded a friend with a "no more'n ordinary right cross," refuses. Furious, Holmes orders his non-coms-all of whom are on the boxing team-to give Prew "the treatment...
...Search, The Men, The Member of the Wedding. At 46 one of Hollywood's top directors, Vienna-born Fred Zinnemann, a former cameraman, uses the camera with easy familiarity, and with a cool simplicity that seems astonished by nothing but shows compassion for everything. Honolulu's Schofield Barracks (where much of the picture was actually filmed) becomes a large, stark frame for some memorable scenes, such as the rite of taps for Private Maggio, with the notes of martial mourning groping their way from stone to stone and from face to shadowy face...
Major General Claude B. Ferenbaugh, 51, commander of 7th Division: West Point, 1918; pre-World War II service in Hawaii and Philippines; operations officer of II Corps in Africa, 1943; assistant commander, 83rd Division, in Europe; chief of staff, Operation Sandstone (atomic tests), 1947-48; commander, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...
...holdings until he had 2,200. Then he sat back and waited to cash in. But the stock went down. Though the company grossed $17 million in fiscal 1949, it netted only $25,709. The dividend: 10? a share. Smith got hopping mad, got hold of Theodore Schofield, biggest stockholder (5,600 shares), who had been fired from the company after 41 years as an engineer. Schofield was mad too. Together, Smith and Schofield formed a coalition to set things right...