Word: wainwrights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when it fell to the Japanese in 1942; by his own hand (his suicide note said that he feared insanity); on a mountain path near Burlingame, Calif. A crack artilleryman, Texas-born General Moore built up a record (better than 10%) average of antiaircraft destruction on Corregidor. With General Wainwright, theater commander, he surrendered the island to the Japanese and set out on the Bataan Death March to spend three years in Japanese prisons. After the war, he was Army commander in the Pacific, retired eight months ago after 40 years' service...
...domestic scene to Army & Navy and World Battlefronts. From 1942 to 1946 even a partial list of his cover subjects, through whom TIME told part of the story of World War II, reads like a rollcall of the war years: Leahy, Alexander, Gort, Tedder, Doolittle, Montgomery, Spaatz, Spruance, Eisenhower, Wainwright, Forrestal, Bradley. Early in 1943 Taylor went to the Pacific as a correspondent to see and report the war firsthand. The climax of his tour of duty there was his unplanned presence at the night sea battle of Kula Gulf, which he watched from the bridge of the engaged cruiser...
...Dishonor. Ghostwriter Considine dashes off his fast-moving autobiographies while their heroes still rate Page One, takes one-third of the "author's" royalties as his cut. His General Wainwright's Story was in print before Wainwright was out of the hospital. While Ted Lawson was still recovering from wounds suffered in Doolittle's Tokyo raid, Considine finished Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo...
...first time in its 103-year history, the U.S. Naval Academy selected a war widow to be color girl for June Week ceremonies. The girl: Mrs. Katherine Wainwright Austin, 26, a registered nurse of North Andover, Mass., whose husband, a Marine flier, was killed at Okinawa...
General Jonathan Wainwright, another blunt speaker, delivered a minority opinion: "I cannot get out of my head that when we turn the Nips loose they will rearm, as fast as they are able. I don't think we've sold democracy to them...