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...trainer but confidant and informal adviser to a long gray line of cadets. Since it all began in 1896, Director John Ford gets a chance to toss in the names or quick flashes of the faces of the West Pointers who later became national heroes: MacArthur, Patton, Bradley, Stratemeyer, Wainwright, Van Fleet, and in the scene depicting the first Army-Notre Dame football game of 1913, a fierce young Notre Dame end, Knute Rockne. There is also a glimpse of another of Maher's favorite lads: a blond, pink-faced boy named-Dwight Eisenhower (played by Harry Carey...
...lawyer's house. He did so well at night school that a group of businessmen sent him through college and law school. Two years after graduation he was a judge. The same year (1929) he was baptized a Christian after six years of persuasion by Methodist Missionary Samuel Wainwright and a Japanese Presbyterian. While Muto was helping to run the conquered Chinese territory of Manchukuo, he served as elder in a church there, and sometimes he worried about the difference between his two jobs. "We [Japanese] Christians made an excuse for the war," Muto explains. "We felt...
...Appeals in New York reversed his conviction, voiding his trial. Reason: he should have been tried where found (Maryland, not Manhattan), and he should not have been subjected to a "prejudicial . . . utterly irrelevant" cross-examination about homosexuality. With the 69 trial witnesses dispersed and at least one (General Jonathan Wainwright) dead, the Justice Department was not certain whether Provoo would ever be tried again...
...Montgomery, Ala., asked in court why he had slugged a woman during a tavern brawl. Rube Wainwright explained: "I thought she was my wife...
Clark, now graduate president of the Varsity Club, is a member of the Overseer's Committees for the College and the Departments of Military, Naval, and Air Science. He is a Boston investment broker, a partner in the firm of H. C. Wainwright...