Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coke & Beer. On central New Providence Island, nine new hotels have sprung up in the past five years. The Howard Johnson-run Nassau Beach Lodge opened in February; rushing to completion is Lyford Cay, a combination club-real estate development masterminded by international beer baron and financier Edward Plunket Taylor of Toronto. In 1955 Taylor paid $2,000,000 for 4,000 acres of underbrush 17 miles west of Nassau, making him the second biggest landowner on New Providence (after Eunice Lady Oakes and her children, heirs to the 7,000 acres of the late Sir Harry Oakes...
When the army set up "G-2," an historical branch of military intelligence, Taylor was assigned to it for obvious reasons. Under Colonel Kemper, now headmaster of Andover, he helped develop a system of field men attached to GHQ, and ficial records through interviews with the troops. In the European Theatre alone there were over 200 field men attached to GMQ, and Taylor was one of them...
...volume army history of the war is still being written, Taylor reports, with about 50 now published. Now part of the army system, and utilized most recently in Korea, the "biggest thing of its kind in U.S. records" meant a great deal to him. "I am very proud to have been in on it," he says, recalling even today the tension of London under V-2 fire and buzz bomb attacks. He emphasizes the loneliness felt by each individual in combat, alone in a foxhole or behind a solitary bush, and relates that he then learned how difficult the piecing...
...Taylor stated that "the American army is generally a civilian army in time of war, and plans never work out according to the way they're set up." Trying to record "not merely what was supposed to happen but what actually happened," Taylor and his group must have succeeded, as the fact that their case studies are still used in training in camps will testify...
According to Taylor, "one of the great public servants in the war" was his own colleague in the History Department, Coolidge Professor William L. Langer '15, who directed the Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services. Starting in 1941 under "Wild Bill" Donovan, Langer helped organize what he calls a "super-university," a group of highly qualified experts on foreign affairs, experts that knew other countries inside out from personal experience and years of study. One of the first few in OSS--which was barely organized by Pearl Harbor--by the end of the war he had a staff...