Word: wainwrights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards...
Bigger, better and costlier memoirs were on the way. With General Wainwright at Ashford General Hospital, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., last week was Hearst's ace story fixer, Bob Considine, who put together Captain Ted Lawson's Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Beginning Oct. 7, the Wainwright story will be syndicated in 42 installments (to some 250 newspapers) by King Features, which is paying the General a reported $155,000-the equivalent (before taxes) of 19 years' base...
General Jonathan Wainwright got a brother's, father's, husband's, and hero's welcome home. At San Francisco his sister broke from the airport crowd and gave him a squeeze; Commander Jonathan Jr. wrapped his arms around him, and kissed him on the cheek. In Washington two days later the General stepped from his plane into the arms of his wife, whom he had not seen for more than four years. And President Truman, who remarked that it gave him "more pleasure than almost anything I have ever done," presented him with the Congressional Medal...
...Douglas MacArthur's show from beginning to end. At precisely 9:08 MacArthur stepped forward, removed a handful of fountain pens from his pocket. He started his signature, then handed the first pen to the gaunt soldier standing by his left shoulder. General Jonathan Wainwright saluted stiffly, accepted the pen, and stepped back. The next one went to Lieut. General Arthur E. Percival of Singapore...
Whisked to Baguio, Yamashita formally surrendered to Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright, ordered the 40,000 Japanese troops in the Philippines to give...