Word: tho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take the High Ground (M-G-M), an Ansco Color hymn to the glories of the Army's basic training, was filmed to the tune of a flag-waving theme song (Take the high ground and hold it! Tho' you face eternity . . .). The raw recruits who are to be turned into soldiers include such familiar characters as the bragging Texan, the brash college boy, the sensitive Negro and the weakling. Happily, the picture spares moviegoers another movie version of the Brooklynite. Richard Widmark barks his way through the role of the tough sergeant, and a curious attempt...
...Thorpe was born in a one-room log cabin near Prague, Okla. Jim's Indian mother-his father was half Irish-gave him the Sac and Fox tribal name Wa-Tho-Huck, meaning Bright Path. He was a muscular (5 ft. 11½ in., 185 Ibs.) youngster of 19 when he caught the eye of Football Coach Glenn ("Pop") Warner at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school. Pop Warner made Jim Thorpe into a football player, and Jim Thorpe made Pop's Carlisle Indians famous. One of Jim's biggest football thrills: "Running back two straight kickoffs...
...pulled out for a three-week rest north of the Hanoi delta, while others 1) captured Dien Bien airport and garrison, 65 miles west of Nasan; 2) ambushed a detachment of Moroccans retreating from Laichau and then encircled the old Thai capital; 3) forced the French to abandon Phong Tho, 35 miles north of Laichau; 4) moved south to the borders of Laos. Giap's most serious effort was a two-division attack (20,000 men) on the flooded area around Phat Diem, only 62 miles south of Hanoi. The French replied by moving in .three mobile groups (each...
...last week, after Commissioner de Raymond had eaten a heavy lunch and was enjoying his usual siesta, le petit Tho, armed with a sledge hammer and a Boy Scout knife, slipped into the air-conditioned bedroom. With one blow of the sledge hammer he smashed the Commissioner's skull. He plunged the knife several times into his chest and spleen, finally cut the Commissioner's throat, leaving the knife embedded in the wound. Le petit Tho then carefully rifled the Commissioner's effects, taking his watch, ring and pistol. He left the room, locking the door behind...
Call It Patriotism. The alarm, sounded a few minutes later, set off the biggest manhunt in Cambodian history, but failed to catch up with le petit Tho. Said General de Lattre de Tassigny: "Never before has terrorism revealed itself with more cruelty, cowardice or dishonor." At week's end the Viet Minh radio announced that "the patriot who liquidated Commissioner de Raymond is now safe...