Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know the U.S. serviceman, and to discover the "likeness between G.I. Joe and Tommy Atkins . . . Like his British colleague, the American soldier was an amateur, and reared to mistrust the posturings of professional militarists ... A civilian at heart, he drove his tank as if it were a long-distance truck on U.S. Route 1, set out from British ports on Arctic convoys or anti-submarine patrols as if he were taking the family across to Staten Island, and bombed-up a Flying Fortress as though he were loading the mails from Bismarck for Butte, Montana...
Speeding along the road toward Flor ence one day, he met a truck coming from the front with a looted baby grand piano. Seeing the general's stars, the truck driver pulled aside to let him pass-and hit a land mine in the ditch. Part of the piano came hurtling down on Templer's back, seriously injuring his spine. When he recovered, the war was almost over. ("Only general ever wounded by a piano," he says savagely.) Appointed first military governor of the British zone in Germany, he announced that he intended to be "firm...
...teeming Negro and colored shantytowns of Johannesburg, where newspapers and magazines are a rarity, a truck piled high with magazines rumbled through the unpaved streets last week. Wherever it stopped, hundreds of people swarmed about it, buying the magazine: The African Drum. A 5? Life-size monthly, Drum has in less than three years become the leading spokesman for South Africa's 9,000,000 Negro and colored population. In South Africa, torn by racial strife, Drum's popularity is easily xplained. "We air the views and grievances of the blacks," says Publisher James R. Bailey, a white...
Cambridge Fire Chief John F. Collins yesterday charged freshmen with stealing equipment from a truck in the Yard and hinted that undergraduates have been turning in a flock of false alarms in the past few weeks...
...father, William Andrew Stassen, was the son of Norwegian and Czech immigrants; his mother came to the U.S. from Germany when she was six years old. Harold, one of five children, was born April 13, 1907, at West St. Paul, Minn., where his father ran a 40-acre truck farm. He grew up on the farm, worked as a grocery clerk, bakery pan greaser and Pullman conductor to pay his way through the University of Minnesota, graduated from the law school with above-average marks in 1929 at the age of 22. The same year he married his school...