Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawyer-Soldier Moses Cleaveland, a square-chinned Yaleman (class of 1777), and his associates in the Connecticut Land Company thought they had a good speculation. For $1,200,000 (mostly in notes) they bought about three million acres of post-Revolutionary Connecticut's Western Reserve lands, away out in the wilderness. Thanks to that Yankee gamble, the nation's sixth largest city celebrates its 150th anniversary next week...
...line, the coaches, and the possibility of a change in Harlow's system is a story for another day, as are preliminary speculations about next fall's opponents, but it's sufficient to say that Dick Harlow should have a somewhat cheerier outlook than usual when practice starts on Soldier's Field the day after Labor Day. It's conceded that the Yalies, among others, will present an awesome spectacle come November, but at least the Cambridge oologist has the basis for a Varsity squad which might inject a few surprises into the Eastern grid-iron picture...
Last week, a twelve-year-old Hiroshima schoolboy with a ragged scar over his left eye peered at a TIME correspondent through glasses he has worn ever since the bombing. Said Hiroshima's child: "You American? American soldier good. Americans number one." His mother and sister, he said, had been killed by the bomb...
...Cyril, who became a professional soldier, was killed in France in 1915. Vyvyan, now 60, studied law, lives in London, works for the BBC. In 1943 he married Australian-born Thelma Besant, a great-great niece of Theosophist Annie Besant. They have one son, Christopher Merlin Vyvyan, born in 1945. Says Vyvyan Holland (the Holland surname was adopted by Constance Wilde, under strong pressure from her family, after Oscar's conviction): "I was only nine in 1895, and was not even told of my father's difficulties until I was 20. Everything happened so long ago that...
Werner Schwalb, a staunch Nazi for most of his 31 years, joined the German Army in 1937. As a tank gunner he won an Iron Cross in the invasion of France. He was with Rommel in North Africa. Then he was captured, and that finished him as a soldier. But not as a Nazi...