Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PRIVATE ADVENTURE OF CAPTAIN SHAW- Edith Shay and Katharine Smith-Houghton Mifftin...
...week's end, the philosophical Foreign Minister took a dozen other foreign ministers to the Hipódromo de las Américas, Mexico's horse track backed by U.S. expatriate "Sell 'em" Ben Smith and President Manuel Avila Camacho's late brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Result: Host Padilla, Colombia's Foreign Minister Alberto Lleras Camargo, Venezuela's Carraciolo Parra-Perez each lost 50 pesos on a long shot. Nicaragua's Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa won 500 pesos ($103) on two races...
...when defenses will no longer yield before fire power, however heavy. That is the time when men on foot must pay for yardage with their lives. That is when the marines are at their greatest. This, said the Fleet Marine Force commander, Lieut. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, is their toughest fight in 168 years...
Lieut. General Walter Bedell ("Bee-die") Smith, brainy chief of staff to General Eisenhower, received a letter from Miss Arda Knox, his old high-school mathematics teacher, who wrote: "I don't suppose you will even remember me. When I saw your picture in TIME (Jan. 1), I could see that little . . black head down over your algebra book." Beedle answered: "I am glad to say, in case you remember my long succession of 'Cs,' that I have a lot of very able young engineers. . . . To me you were always the one bright spot in the mathematics...
When French Revolutionists seized Captain Shaw's ship, the stubborn New Englander braved Robespierre and wicked Paris to get it back. Humor and deft characterization lift this book a notch above the standard adventure romance. Co-author Smith is Mrs. John Dos Passos...