Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest dunce among the rats (freshmen). Yet, bitten by V.M.I.'s tradition and by a proper reverence for the exploits of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, V.M.I.'s most illustrious professor (whose statue still rates a salute from passing cadets), George Marshall wanted above all to be a soldier...
...marching members of the gridiron Band bring a touch of the quality and brilliance of the concert stage to the football stadium. The songs are always apt to the occasion: "Where, Oh Where Has My Little Doggie Gone?" as Yale nears defeat; "There's Something About a Soldier" as Army rolls over Harvard; "Ten Little Indians" as Dartmouth takes the field; or "Yankee Doodle" as New York meets Boston at Fenway Park...
Died. Li Chi-shen, 75, volatile vice chairman of Red China's National People's Congress, onetime top-ranking soldier of Chiang Kai-shek who led a bloody purge against the Communists in 1927, served as Chiang's chief of staff (1928), often quarreled with the Generalissimo, decisively in 1947 when at the height of the military crisis he tried to form a third party of liberals and warlords to mediate between the Nationalists and the Communists; of cancer and a cerebral thrombosis; in Peking...
Career (Hal Wallis; Paramount), the film version of James Lee's off-Broadway hit of 1957, tells the story of a stage-struck ex-soldier (Anthony Franciosa) from Lansing, Mich, who heads for Manhattan after World War II to become an actor. He imagines himself going from hit to hit, but unfortunately he staggers from cliche to cliche. For six months he lives in the inevitable cold-water flat with an orange crate for an icebox, and walks the streets from one tryout to another. Nothing doing. Then a talk-big, pay-small type Dean Martin) gives...
After about an hour of this, the scene shifts to the French Riviera, where the unattended wife meets a tall, straightforward French soldier (Cesare Danova). In his wallet is a seminude picture of her, clipped from a fan magazine; he has carried it from the 38th Parallel to Dienbienphu. He shows it to her and confesses his secret love. She bares her arid heart. They bolt to his clifftop villa...