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There had been about 8,000 men in the First Airborne Division when red-bereted Major General Robert Eliot Urquhart made the drop with them to seize the bridge over the Lek (TIME, Oct. 2). Last week, when they came out after nine terrible days & nights, about 2,000 of them were left-exhausted, nerve-shattered men, many burned and many wounded. They had been through probably more concentrated hell than any Allied soldiers had yet faced in the West. They were beaten men, too, but they were not beaten in spirit...
However Tired. The Red Devils' commander was a character for an epic: tall, thickset, a cheery Scot, at 42 one of the British Army's youngest generals. General "Roy" Urquhart had been in hard spots before, as two awards of the Distinguished Service Order showed. His citation in Sicily had read: "Coolness under fire . . . clear brain however tired...
Died. James Alexander Stillman, 70, socialite ex-president of the National City Bank of New York; in Manhattan. In 1921 he sued his wife "Fifi" (Anne Urquhart Potter Stillman) for divorce, sensationally and unsuccessfully alleging that the father of their son Guy was a Canadian Indian guide, Fred Beauvais. After her countercharge that Stillman was love-nesting with stage beauty Flo Leeds, he resigned his bank presidency...
...thought he could invent a better one-and did. To manufacture and sell it, he formed National Foam, soon was doing a tidy worldwide business selling foam and equipment to protect oilfields and refineries in Ploesti, Hamburg, Tokyo, Yokohama. Later, aided by his chemistry-smart vice president, George Gordon Urquhart, he turned a second trick: creation from soybeans of a new super-efficient foam, which he called Aer-O-Foam...
Moore, rowing 4, is a Regimental Commander in the N.T.S., Urquhart was captain of the Yale Varsity in 1933, Omohundro and Moore rowed with the Navy, Drissler, Werrenworth and Schley rowed with Cornell, Swords rowed with the Harvard 150-lb. crew in 1928, and Nesworthy rowed on the American International Crew...