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...Chief of Staff of the Stateside Third Air Force that "staged the flights of U.S. aircraft across the North and South Atlantic to Europe. ("If we don't hit Ascension, my wife gets a pension.") In September 1944 he was assigned as deputy commander of MacArthur's Thirteenth ("Jungle") Air Force in the South Pacific, but MacArthur grounded all personnel with knowledge of U.S. codes and advance strategic plans-and that included Tommy White. In June 1945 he got command of the Seventh Air Force at Okinawa, but his chances of glory were overtaken by the peace...
...worked out, Midler took second, Eckel third, and Reider fifth. But the all-important third man for the Ithacans, Nat Cravener, was seventh, well ahead of the varsity's Dave Norris, Dyke Benjamin, and Jim Schlaeppi. These three finished eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth...
...Mystery of Thirteen, it proved cold, cold ground. David Shaw's version of Robert Graves' They Hanged My Saintly Billy recounted the actual career of an English rogue, gambler and forger named Dr. William Palmer, who was hanged in 1856 for what was rumored as his thirteenth murder by poison. Graves argued that Palmer was the victim of circumstantial evidence. Intentionally or not, the TV version left no doubt of his guilt, and it tried to mitigate Palmer's villainy with the charm of skilled Actor Jack Lemmon. All the Lemmon twists could not make palatable...
...exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed... The Byzantine Empire was preeminently the age of treachery." It has taken many years to overcome the stigma of Victorian moralism, and Byzantinology will probably never receive the vogue accorded Greek and Roman civilization in the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries...
...doubles combinations completed the Crimson's thirteenth victory of the year. Heckscher teamed with Mills to top Bullock and Don Seward...