Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retired naval officer of some 43 years of service and a veteran of amphibious warfare from Guadalcanal to the occupation of Japan, I dust off and don my uniform cap to salute you on your Nov. 24 article on General Lemuel Shepherd...
Templer is the perfect picture of a British regular soldier: an austere, stiff-backed autocrat in uniform-and in mufti a bit of a dandy. He lived elegantly in London's Belgravia and became a connoisseur of claret, crystal and ijth century books. But in the company of his old war comrades he could relax. Says one: "He'll bring along an elderly fellow in civilian attire and introduce him to the officers as 'You remember Sergeant So-and-So. He and I fought together at So-and-So.' Sometimes if you happen to mention...
...office because "I can get more work done when I'm alone." He has no social life, shuns the theater, movies, TV, but is a wide reader. A wealthy man (his Amerada stock alone is worth $8,000,000), he makes no show of it, wears a somber uniform of dark clothes, has no car, shuttles to his Manhattan office by subway from the staid old Plaza Hotel, where he has lived for 25 years. "I'm not gregarious," he says. "I don't have many friends and no particular friends. I have business associates...
...academic year begins September 28, in contrast with 1952's September 22 deadline. Christmas vacation, however, will start only one day later, lasting the uniform 14 days. Commencement for the Class of '54 will be on Wednesday, June...
Yaeger has asked that his uniform, 99, be retired...