Word: smith
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George Albert Smith, 75, goateed Senior Member of his church's Council of the Twelve Apostles, became the eighth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). He inherits the mantle of all-powerful Prophet, Seer and Revelator of 954,000 Latter-day Saints...
...Okinawa last week, a Jap shell fragment seriously injured LIFE Photographer W. Eugene Smith, just as he was shooting a final picture for a layout on "A Day with a Front-Line Soldier." Commented Smith, a veteran of 13 Pacific actions and 23 combat bombing missions, at a field hospital afterwards: "I forgot to duck, but I got a good picture of those...
...except that he was seen dapperly weighing his overseas cap on liberty. He was exhibit his latest purchase from the B State Outfitting Co. Soon--watch for the Latest to join Kewpie in the "Live-on-as Like It Club" for next semester are E Stack and Long John Smith...
...week's end, SHAEF revealed that a double rode in General Eisenhower's four-starred automobile in France last winter. Lieut. Colonel Baldwin B. Smith of Chicago, who bears a striking resemblance to the Supreme Commander, volunteered as a decoy after Army Intelligence heard rumors of a German assassination plot...
...India's fashionable Simla last week, Burma's governor, trim, mustachioed Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, was waiting to re-enter Rangoon. Well might he recall the words he had uttered in October 1943, after his expulsion from Burma: "Neither our word nor our intentions are trusted in that part of the globe. . . . We have fed such countries as Burma on political formulae until they are sick at the very sight and sound of a formula, which has come, as far as my experience shows, to be looked upon as a very British means of avoiding a definite course...