Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mendy Weisgal '45 1G as the Dauphin, Thayer David as the Inquisitor, Charles Sedgwick 1G as the Archbishop, Jerome T. Kilty '50 as Cauchon, Joseph D. Everingham '49 as Dunois, William A. West '49 as Warwick, H. M. Temple 3rd '47 as Robert de Beaudricourt and as the English soldier...
Assisting him will be dance director Charles Conkling, who was formerly in charge of all soldier shows in the ETO. Scenery and costuming will be done by Donald Finlayson and Miss Pat Haveus respectively...
Midafternoon, the two sentries patrolling the entry through the barbed wire to Goldsmith House were startled by a small explosion in the rear of the building. Then bullets whizzed around them. One soldier fell, dead. A truck rumbled through the wire opening. Covered by a spray of machine gun and rifle fire from nearby buildings, three men dashed to the truck. Out of it and into the club's door and open windows they heaved suitcases. In a moment there was a heavy explosion. Hours later, when the rubble had been combed, the British announced the toll: 16 killed...
...Cairo last week a freckled, pug-nosed Arab soldier-adventurer basked in glory. The Arab press hailed him as a hero. The exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, grey-bearded Haj Amin El-Husseini, received him warmly. The Lebanese Legation gave a reception for him. He granted interviews in his suite at the Hotel Continental, talked cheerfully about starting an Arab war against both British and Jews in Palestine...
...Carlos Finlay's long-held theory that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. The test is hazardous, for since only human beings get yellow fever, only human beings can serve as guinea pigs.* The first tests, moreover, are bungled; but eventually, after an Army doctor has died, a soldier has been inoculated by press-gang methods, and four others have become guinea pigs voluntarily, experiment turns into proof...