Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wolcott Gibbs, famed dramatic critic of the "New Yorker," and Irwin Shaw, author of the play, will be among the celebrities on hand for opening night, and radio interviews have been arranged for several members of the cast and staff...
Three days after his first arrival in Chungking, this was Stilwell's attitude toward his superior, Chiang Kaishek: "[Dinner at Chiang's] turned out to be a session of amateur tactics by Chiang Kaishek, backed up by a stooge staff general. Chiang Kai-shek gave me a long lecture on the situation and picked on Mandalay as the danger point. 'If the British run away, the Japs will get to Mandalay and crucify us.' I showed him the solution, but [the] stooge jumped in and made a long harangue about how right Chiang Kai-shek...
Last week there were signs that the Greeks were ready to move in a spring offensive against Markos. In Athens, the staff of burly, battlewise Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, chief U.S. military adviser to Greece, has been working out plans for an offensive against the Communist-led guerrillas. Hailing the Pieria action as "a splendid victory," Van Fleet was showing a knack for getting action out of reluctant guerrilla hunters...
...himself, once wrote a novel about an ambitious, grasping newspaperman. He called it Portrait of a Successful Man. Nobody who knew William Francis Casey thought it was in the least autobiographical. Last week success went out of its way to settle on Casey. After 35 faithful years on the staff, he became editor of the London Times, which makes him a kind of pope of Britain's press...
Died. Field Marshal George Francis Milne, Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, 81, onetime Chief of the British Imperial General Staff (1926-33); after long illness; in London. A veteran of Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan and a general officer since 1913, doughty old "Uncle George" served in World War II as an air-raid warden...