Word: whitehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Majesty King George VI of England has awarded the coveted Order of Merit to Alfred North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, emeritus and senior fellow of the Society of Fellows, the British Consulate General's Office announced yesterday. Whitehead taught philosophy at Harvard from...
Correspondent Wertenbaker's vivid, thoughtful account of his own observations in France is supplemented by lengthy quotations from A.P. Correspondent Don Whitehead and LIFE Photographer Robert Capa, who went in at the toughest point of the Normandy beach, and TIME Correspondent William Walton, who jumped with a paratroop unit. The result is a well-rounded account, and first-rate journalism...
...against any newsman's bet that he would be killed. But professionally imaginative correspondents took little comfort from these odds, or from such grim expressions of goodwill as were offered by the commanding officer of the assault unit to which A. P.'s lank, drawling Don Whitehead was assigned; Said the C.O.: "We are ready to help you. . . . The people at home won't know what is happening unless you are given information and I want them to know. ... If you're wounded, we'll take care of you. If you're killed...
...like Don Whitehead and Clark Lee [I.N.S.], who had been through the mill so long and so boldly, began to get nerves. And frankly I was the worst of the lot, and continued to be. I began having terrible periods of depression and often would dream hideous dreams about it. All the time fear lay blackly deep upon your consciousness. It bore down on your heart like an all-consuming weight. People would talk to you, and you wouldn't hear what they were saying...
...certain place with full field kit at 10:30. ... The first night we spent together at an assembly area, an army tent camp. . . . The weather was cold and three blankets were not enough. I hardly slept at all. When we awakened early the next morning . . . Don Whitehead said, 'It's just as miserable as it always...