Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prisoner at Versailles. Back in London while the Normandy invasion was on, she watched her boss, "beset by a thousand worries . . . Always the General had Monty gnawing at his nerves . . . As a SHAEF staff member, as part of the official family and as secretary-driver to General Eisenhower I grew to dislike the very name of Montgomery. In my personal opinion, he gave the Supreme Commander more worry than any other one individual in the entire Allied command...
After the liberation of Paris, Ike and his staff settled down at Versailles. While Ike directed the critical Battle of the Bulge, Kay discloses, he was a virtual prisoner of his own security officers in his headquarters. Army Intelligence had captured a German officer dressed in a U.S. uniform. He confessed that he was one of a band of 60 Nazis heading for Versailles to assassinate Ike. Kay apprehensively recounts: "The normal guard was doubled, trebled, quadrupled. The sound of a car exhaust was enough to halt work in every office, to start a flurry of telephone calls...
...which Bernadotte was killed was brought to Tel Aviv and parked in front of the U.N. mission's hotel. Someone had chalk-marked a jagged bullet hole in the rear seat, and a pretty brunette girl told passersby: "That's the one that got him." The staff of the U.N. truce mission had lost its last shred of idealism about its task. "I'm in the country where Christ was born," said a U.S. captain in a bar, "and I wish to Christ I was in the country where I was born...
McIndoe's job required much more than surgery; he had to refit his patients for normal life. He insisted on first-name familiarity among patients and hospital staff. He sent groups of his flyers on trips to London, with tickets to the theater and reservations at night clubs. He made sure that his patients had pretty nurses...
Harvard's coaching staff will play this underdog angle to the hilt. No creampuff opener has been selected. When the Crimson goes against Columbia Saturday, Valpey's Michigan single-wing magic will be unveiled for the first time...