Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that when a man reaches senior rank his mind automatically shuts? Such a generalization is ridiculous. Of course, there are some brass hats who are stuffed shirts. There are also countless numbers of them who are alert, open-minded men spending every ounce of thought, knowledge and energy they possess (and that is a lot) in running the Army and Navy with little glory and certainly not much understanding and appreciation to help them...
There are the snapshots Peter Stackpole picked up on the bloody beach of Saipan ( one shows a smiling, doll-like Japanese child waving the flag of Nippon) -and the stamp collection TIME Senior Editor Sidney Olson took from the knapsack of a Hitler youth who lay dead outside battered Nürnberg( " The Russians had already gone over him pretty thoroughly, but they won't take anything that has the swastika...
...check "on account" front Boston was enough to buy a $100 war bond, a new suit, and pay off the $3 which his steady girl friend, Sue Summer, had been obliged to advance for their ticket to the senior prom...
Private First Class Clarence W. Ross, stationed at Las Vegas Army Airfield, peeled off his uniform at the National A.A.U. Senior Weight-lifting Championships, displayed his Varga-boy thorax and other features (see cut), which added up to a title: 1945's Most Perfectly Developed...
Facing bankruptcy, Martin Bekins thought up, built and personally operated a covered van which proved unexpectedly successful. In 1904, he introduced the first motorized van. When Sjoerd's grand son Milo (now 53, senior family member, and president of California Bekins) was ready to go to work in 1919, he had an already flourishing business to develop...