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...Wedemeyer was finding it so hard to keep busy as commander of the Sixth Army that he was begging friends in Washington to come up and lunch with him. And among the shady hackberry trees and smooth lawns of San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston, General Jonathan Wainwright, commanding the Fourth Army, had plenty of time to remember Jap shells...
...FAMILY AS WELL AS 15,000 OTHER DUTCH OFFICIALS IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN JAPANESE INVASION REMAINED AT THEIR POSTS, WERE TAKEN PRISONERS BY THE JAPANESE AND SUFFERED ALL CRUELTIES AND INDIGNITIES OF JAPANESE INTERNMENT. GOVERNOR GENERAL STARKENBORGH HIMSELF SHARED CAPTIVITY AND HUMILIATION IN SAME CAMP WITH GENERAL WAINWRIGHT...
Twenty million Mexicans had a new President. The 2,500 Mexican big shots and distinguished foreign guests inside the auditorium-General Jonathan Wainwright and U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder among others-applauded. Notably absent: ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, symbol of the revolutionary left...
Into Russia as magazine correspondents flew the Elliott Roosevelts, who got a royal* welcome in Moscow from the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS). Out of Mombasa, British East Africa, bound for New York, steamed a merchant ship captained by Jonathan M. Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew...
Count 2, filed last, came after coroner Warren Wainwright analyzed the collective breaths of the three suspects, and declared that the evidence clearly indicated vodka. "We only had one glass apiece," said Witherspoon P. Pugh, Yale '50, in a guilty plea for clemency...