Word: tactician
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...unostentatious, cool, soft-spoken tactician, who led the II Corps in Africa and Sicily and commanded the Twelfth Army Group in France in World War II, had never been in the Pacific until February of this year. Then he made a ten-day trip to the Far East. He had found U.S. troops in Japan "well-equipped, well-trained," he said, "but unfortunately poorly housed...
...ground forces in Korea, went back last week to defend the land which, as U.S. military governor, he had ruled from October 1947 to January 1948. Burly, blond Bill Dean, commissioned in the Regular Army in 1923 after Reserve training while at the University of California, became a crack tactician in World War II, commanded the 44th Infantry Division in its sweep through Germany and Austria...
...confessed the murder of Beulah Ross, the sexy teenager who ran away with him for an illicit two-week idyll. But when Parker Nowell took Farmer Eustis' case, that changed matters a bit. Lawyer Nowell was a sour misogynist but he was also a brilliant courtroom tactician who "never took a case unless it was hopeless, and it was a long way from hopeless" when...
Died. William A. Alexander, 60, athletic director and for 25 years head football coach at Georgia Tech; of a heart ailment; in Atlanta. A wily, diagraming tactician, Bill Alexander depended on a polished, whippet-lean squad to bring him 135 victories (95 defeats), five Bowl games, of which Tech won three...
Like any good commissar, Dennis carried out Moscow's orders. But he was not too skillful as an executive officer and tactician. He tried, for example, to get Mike Quill, onetime devout party-liner, to throw the support of his C.I.O. Transport Workers Union behind Henry Wallace's presidential campaign. Quill refused. When...