Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week in which the entire U.S. was showering praise on General Eisenhower for the job he did in unifying the diverse Allied commands in Europe, many an armchair strategist in the U.S. cried out for an Eisenhower of the Pacific. They had some reason: the Pacific command, the lines of which were defined none too sharply by Franklin Roosevelt shortly be fore he died, is complicated...
Doctor of Laws: Ernest J. King, Admiral, U.S. Navy; Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet: "A strategist unshaken by adversity, determined organizer of final victory; we honor his brilliant leadership of our navy and pay tribute to the fighting men whom he commands...
Soon, France's Baltic garrisons were aquake with jitters, and the neutrals were agape with admiration. Influential Russian Countess Canerine, whose "dark and liquid eyes" burned with "consuming fire," decided that Hornblower's manly chest was the place for her "bosom white as snow." Prussian Strategist von Clausewitz deserted from Napoleon's Prussian army, and learned, from Hornblower, what strategy really meant. Sweden joined the Allies. Tsar Alexander was so encouraged that he sent Napoleon a rude letter - which, of course, resulted in the march on Moscow...
Died. Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, 64, brusque, violent, onetime Commander in Chief of the Japanese Grand Fleet, strategist of Japanese submarine warfare, 79th Japanese admiral pronounced dead since May 27; in Japan...
Petree Up, Barker's Down. The strategist behind Barker Brothers is a square-faced, well-nosed Scotch-Irishman named Neil Petree, 46, who collects $65,000 a year for his ideas. Born in Missouri, Neil entered Stanford University in 1915, took nearly two years out to go to war, came back and crammed hard enough to graduate with his class in 1919. By the time he was 28, Petree was managing San Francisco's big Hale Brothers department store, at 33 was president of James McCreery & Co. in New York...