Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial before a U.S. court-martial in London was Sergeant Judson H. Smith-one of twelve men charged with cruelty to G.I. prisoners in the guardhouse of the loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield. But last week, as the story of repeated brutalities (TIME, Dec. 31) continued to unfold, lowly Sergeant Smith became almost the forgotten man at his own trial. The accusing finger pointed higher & higher up the chain of command...
Handsome, dignified Major Richard E. LoBuono, onetime provost marshal at the depot, had been called as a defense witness for Smith. Under triphammer questioning LoBuono began to amend his answers. Among the cross currents of his testimony was one which swirled close to Colonel James A. Kilian, the depot's bespectacled former commandant. LoBuono testified that he had been shaken by Kilian's threats. One of them: "I made you what you are today and I am going to hang you." Later, LoBuono said, he "had gained the impression" that Kilian "was trying to control witnesses...
LoBuono was Major General Albert E. Brown, who had been chief of the Ground Force Reinforcement Command. Brown, according to LoBuono, had told him that the treatment at the guardhouse was "too soft," and had told Defendant Smith: "You're not tough enough on these men. You're running a hotel, Sergeant...
Critic Winspear, who is director of Chicago's leftish Abraham Lincoln School, got maddest at one of Harvard's suggested reading lists which he said "apparently stopped with the great classics of laissez-faire. From such a list [Adam Smith, Rousseau, Mill et al.] ... no student would ever glean 'dangerous thoughts...
Billion Dollar Baby (books & lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Morton Gould; produced by Paul Feigay & Oliver Smith) takes a cockeyed look, through purple-colored glasses, at the fantastic '20s. In a swirl of burlesque it lurches through speakeasies, totters through dance marathons, plugs racketeers, pummels gold diggers, plays hob with billionaires. Almost all of it is bold and un-Broadwayish, and bits and pieces of it are delightful. But as a whole, it doesn't quite come...