Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like myself, you are an infantry general long schooled and practised in infantry warfare," wrote Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., to the Japanese commander on Okinawa. "You fully know that no reinforcements can reach you. I believe, therefore, that you understand as clearly as I that the destruction of all Japanese resistance on this island is merely a matter of days, and that this will entail the necessity of my killing the vast majority of your remaining troops. ... I will acquaint [your representatives] with the manner in which an orderly and honorable cessation of hostilities may be arranged...
...officer, had just left his cabin. Concussion hurled him back through the closed door and up against the outer bulkhead. The forward elevator, weighing 32 tons, popped up from the flight deck, its plungers blown from their sockets. In a control room in the towering island structure Lieut. William Simon was flung against the overhead. He came to and managed to crawl through a door. Simon was one of three men to escape; 30 died inside. On the gallery deck men were trapped inside jammed doors and baked to death by the breath of fire which reached...
...comparative immortality of book publication (13 by Corwin; More by Corwin). Last week Corwin did it again. His full-hour V-E day program, On a Note of Triumph, had a Sunday repeat performance, and in book form, without too much ballyhoo, was selling so fast that Publishers Simon & Schuster rushed out a second printing of 25,000 copies...
...have reached 23,188, of whom 3,877 are dead and 2,611 missing. At sea at least 25 ships, most of them light units, have been sunk; many more, including some major units, have been damaged. "We will take our time," said the Tenth's Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., "and kill the Japanese gradually." Meanwhile the ship-plane battle went on. Admiral Nimitz's communique announced that a major warship had been damaged during an air attack...
This week Mrs. Caruso, a handsome, white-haired woman in her early 50s, will publish the story of her three-year marriage to the bombastic Italian opera king (Enrico Caruso, His Life and Death; Simon and Schuster, $2.75). Wisely, she made no changes in the picturesque, Italian-English in which Caruso brought her his daily dramas...