Word: general
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crusade in Europe (Sun. 3 p.m., ABC-TV). First program of a re-run of the film based on General Eisenhower's book...
Such qualities, unflaggingly demonstrated by the Salvation Army through its 71-year history, had won it a measure of public support and respect, particularly in the U.S., that would have astonished the army's embattled first generation. But the workers in General Booth's host, like other dedicated servants of the poor, could make an explanation. The world could not continue to persecute, or even be indifferent, to men & women who live by the most difficult of Christ's beatitudes: "Blessed are the meek . . . blessed are the merciful...
Died. Brigadier General Arthur Vincent McDermott, 61, who as wartime head of the nation's biggest draft board (he called it "agony headquarters") put 900,000 New Yorkers into uniform; after long illness; in Manhattan...
Rocks for Charles Boyer. From Australia, General MacArthur sent the1st Division to Cape Gloucester, which was so miserable one sergeant swore: "In the next war I ain't even gonna plant a victory garden." The Japs weren't too numerous, but Hill 660 was steep and slippery and it rained all the time. "The wells of fountain pens clogged; pencils came apart at the seams in less than a week, blades of pocket knives rusted together," McMillan remembers. Shellfire caused giant, rotten trees to tremble and fall; 25 men died as victims of such odd accidents of jungle...
Treatment. In Morgantown, W. Va., Mrs. Isabell Shaffer, suing the Monongalia General Hospital, charged that while she was being X-rayed there for a broken arm, she fell off the laboratory table and broke...