Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Churchill. Manstein's Junker ancestors had fought for two kaisers and one czar. Young Manstein was commissioned in the exclusive Potsdam Guards, finished World War I with the rank of captain. In World War II, he served brilliantly as chief of staff to Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt in the invasion of Poland; in the summer of 1940, by then in command of an army of his own, Manstein broke through the French line on the Somme. When Hitler launched his attack on Russia, it was Manstein who commanded the southern German army group, won a string...
...Indo-China. On his return he wrote a 60-page report to the government in which he made adverse comments on France's conduct in Indo-China. Somehow the report got into the hands of the Communists, as the worried French government learned last September, when a young Indo-Chinese named Do Dai Phuoc got into a fight with a French soldier in a Paris bus. After the fight Do Dai Phuoc, a doctor of law and president of the Vietnamese Students' Association in France, was arrested for disorderly conduct. Among various innocuous pamphlets in his briefcase, police...
...Legislature-a dull-looking chap in a toga stabbing a half-naked girl-was a vivid, if highly unpleasant, mixture of lust and righteous rage. At the Sea a Girl was a pompously titled new departure for Henry Koerner, one of the country's most promising young painters. With even more ambiguous symbolism than that which characterized his last exhibition (TIME, Feb. 21), Koerner had painted a girl hauled from the ocean while an uncurious crowd fished from the dock above. Koerner's oil was as stark as a tabloid photo, and more disturbing. Was the Girl...
What makes men teach at women's colleges? "A young instructor summed it up very neatly the other day when he said, 'I think women are wonderful...
...from Sehwarz, and that was Santa Claus. The search led on to Filene's, where one was found seated on a throne, doling out green lollypops to frightened little children, some of whom had to be dragged up to him bodily. Santa had a new assistant this year, a young lady who called herself Miss Holly and who was dressed like a like a Filene doll called Holly Dolly, only she was big and blonde and the dolls small and brunette. I asked Miss Holly who Santa Claus really was and she said that he was a student...