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Died. Field Marshal Viscount Gort (John Standish Surtees Prendergast Ve-reker), 59, former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, commander of the ill-fated 1940 British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium; after an operation; in London. A wearer of the Old School. Tie but a tough professional soldier, he won the Victoria Cross in World War I for directing from a stretcher an attack across the Canal du Nord near Cambrai. In World War II he led the British in one of their finest hours (the heroic retreat from Dunkirk), held Malta through the racking bombing...
...current American Journal of Surgery, California's Dr. Clarence A. Split-hoff considers the causes & cures of backache. Chief causes: poor posture, extra fat, weak bone structure, accidents, high heels -which can throw the wearer's pelvis off balance...
...been the victim of phenomenally bad luck, both in & out of court. Wearer of three rows of ribbons, including a Silver Star for gallantry in the Solomons, a topnotch officer (according to Admiral Raymond A. Spruance), handsome, 47-year-old McVay had had his ship-and perhaps his career-shot out from under him 16 days before...
...stand went balding, bumbling Major General Sherman Miles, wearer of four rows of ribbons, Assistant Chief of Staff for Military Intelligence in the crucial days of 1941. Into the record went a long series of Japanese code messages intercepted before Dec. 7. Most significant: instructions sent by Tokyo on Sept. 24, ordering a spy in Honolulu to divide Pearl Harbor into five sectors, report on the ships at anchor in each...
William Martin ("Bull Bill") Jeffers, Union Pacific office boy turned U.P. president, recently chief bridger of the wartime rubber gap, won the American Irish Historical Society's annual gold medal for outstanding achievement by a wearer of the green...