Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardy inhabitants* of isolated Aklavik at the mouth of the Mackenzie River own 220 radios. But for a long time they could tune in regularly on only one station, at Fairbanks, Alaska, and it broadcasts only in the winter. Now, thanks to a burly, good-natured Canadian soldier named R. A. ("Red") MacLeod, Aklavikans have a full-fledged station of their...
With a contract from the Globe in his pocket, Robert L. Moore '49, of Winthrop House and Concord sets off for the United Kingdom this summer to write a series of articles on the topic of "An American Soldier Revisits England Three Years Later...
...Romans in the Ardeatine Caves (among the victims were women, schoolchildren, babies and 15 persons rounded up at the last minute as "extras"). Two subordinate German generals have been sentenced to death for that outrage (TIME, Dec. 9). But pug-faced, "Smiling Albert" Kesselring was still a good enough soldier to insist, "If there is any guilt, it is mine and mine alone...
Midwife in Boots. The Molotov note was a victory for chunky, trap-jawed John Hodge, who had won at Guadalcanal and Okinawa victories more suited to his soldier's temperament. No diplomat, Hodge had made his mistakes in Korea. But what he lacked in subtlety and tact, Hodge made up in tenacity. He grasped the essentials of the Korean problem. Three months ago, he returned to Washington, steamed in & out of offices telling officials that if the Russians would not play ball, then the U.S. must organize its zone of Korea so effectively that, when the occupying armies pulled...
...middle-class intellectual whose revolutionary sympathies, though they have not frozen him along a party line, have impelled him to become a leader among the maquisards of the Vercors, in southeastern France. Bob, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is already, at 24, a seasoned revolutionary soldier. Paul and Bob have developed a close father-&-son-and brain-&-bravery -friendship which is impaired when Bob is tortured by the Germans (for Paul is inadequate to restore his broken courage), and destroyed when Bob, on a mission to Paris, becomes the lover of Paul's wife. In many ways...