Word: tedder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shifted from National Affairs and the domestic scene to Army & Navy and World Battlefronts. From 1942 to 1946 even a partial list of his cover subjects, through whom TIME told part of the story of World War II, reads like a rollcall of the war years: Leahy, Alexander, Gort, Tedder, Doolittle, Montgomery, Spaatz, Spruance, Eisenhower, Wainwright, Forrestal, Bradley. Early in 1943 Taylor went to the Pacific as a correspondent to see and report the war firsthand. The climax of his tour of duty there was his unplanned presence at the night sea battle of Kula Gulf, which he watched from...
...responsible for all this oogledy-too is a deliberately foolish-looking band leader called Red Ingle (real name: Ernest Jansen). It all began, he says, when he and his band, the Natural Seven, were playing in a Los Angeles nightclub. One night his vocalist, Karen Tedder, complained that if she had to sing Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy once again, she would go mad. To prove her point, she went into a wacky burlesque of it. "Well," said Red, "sing it that way." She did; and every night the boys put in a few more burps and barks. When they...
...Edinburgh, the General got the freedom of the city, and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University. He stood as godfather at the christening of infant Richard Seton Tedder, son of Air Chief Marshal Lord Tedder and his Lady, but refused to hold the child for photographers ("I might drop him!"). Bagpipes welcomed the Eisenhowers to Maybole, where the General was made a freeman and burgess. Ike, who had got in a little shooting on the moors, put the townsfolk at ease: "The poachers among you will find just as many birds left as before I came." Bagpipes...
Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir A^hur William Tedder and Lady Tedder, sightseeing in Manhattan, in a single day encountered such varied American novelties as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, hot dogs, and a college football game (Army 48, Notre Dame...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower learned that he would receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Oxford next month. (So would General Mark Clark, Ambassador John Winant, Harry Hopkins, British Field Marshals Montgomery and Brooke, Air Chief Marshal Tedder...