Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midland Park, N.J., Pfc. Wilson Ackerman's parents got a letter from their son, with some news and a request: he had landed with the 6th Marine Division on a Pacific island named Okinawa; if the newspapers carried anything about it, would they send him the clipping...
After a tour of the campus (during which guides discreetly said little about the mementos of a 1777 Anglo-American meeting at Princeton), they settled down to the first of four two-hour conferences in a room which used to be the office of Princeton's President Woodrow Wilson...
Final Goad. The New York Post's self-styled Saloon Editor Earl Wilson, whose usual preoccupation is with movie stars' brassieres and "derrieres," interrupted Molotov's press conference to ask whether vodka was pronounced "wodka" and whether it could "be consumed . . . without fear of internal injury." This was the final goad to Scripps-Howard's Peter Edson, who promptly exploded in type...
...Arthur Holly Compton, University of Chicago physicist and 1927 Nobel Prizewinner, accepted the chancellorship of Washington University at St. Louis, thus becoming the third Compton brother to be a college president. Brother Karl is president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brother Wilson is president of Washington State College (TIME...
Grey, patrician Charles Wilson, Baron Moran, President of the Royal College of Physicians, is well qualified for this inquiry. Winner of the Military Cross as a medical officer of the Royal Fusiliers in World War I, he notes that "the Prime Minister . . . has taken me where I might learn from those who are doing the fighting" in World War II. The Anatomy of Courage, recently published in London, is composed largely of a series of sketches from life, mostly in World War I. ¶ A malingering old colonel once came to Moran pleading dysentery ("I'm afraid...