Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbol of the vast new peacetime role De Gaulle has given France's army. Famed for courage-Ely wears the Croix de guerre with six citations (both World Wars and Indo China), still carries his arm in a sling as a result of a World War II wound-France's top active soldier has rare prestige with the French officer corps...
...disappointed in him; his wife tricked him into marrying her; his children do not understand him. His idealistic urge to be a physician was stillborn. A hulking six-footer weighing 230 Ibs., Henderson is a kind of Herculean wreck with a bad leg from a World War II wound, a deaf ear, a bridgeful of false teeth and a nose bulbous from overdrinking. All he has is $3,000,000 and a demonic inner voice that says "I want, I want, I want...
...Troublemaker. Aside from this lofty connection, Touré's childhood was singularly unmajestic. One of seven children of an impoverished peasant farmer, he attended a school of Koranic studies at Kankan, eventually wound up in a French technical school. Even after he was forced to quit school, he nagged his friends who were still going to tell him what they had learned, started to read everything he could lay his hands on. In time he became a French colonial treasury clerk in his own country, but his real interests were something else. When the treasury tried to muffle...
...slot. Last week Executive Editor George Cornish-the same man who fired Woodward for "Whitey" Reid in 1948-fired Sports Editor Cooke. His successor: Rufus Stanley Woodward (Amherst '17). After leaving the Trib in '48, Woodward had drifted through a series of jobs, freelanced a bit, wound up as sports editor of the Newark Star-Ledger. Aging (63), quieting (he hasn't kicked a shin in years), the Coach found the sudden vindication almost too much to take-and maybe a little late. "I just feel sort of sunk," he said, getting ready to go back...
Soon Sterling Hayden was busy playing the uncombed adventurer of half a dozen so-so movies and working out his marriage to Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll. During World War II, as a Marine lieutenant, Hayden wound up in Italy, and had the time of his life running guns to Tito's partisans. He was briefly infected by Communism, but he returned home to divorce, remarriage, P.T.A. meetings, more B pictures. He dreamed of making a movie based on Jack London's Sea-Wolf, using his own 98-ft.-schooner, The Wanderer...