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...Whereas General Zwicker's record of service to his country includes combat action which has brought him many decorations and honors, including the Silver Star, Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters and Arrowhead, British Distinguished Service Order, French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre...
...present faculty, much more than a distinguished cluster of scholars, includes two Nobel Prizewinners (Physicists I. I. Rabi and Hideki Yukawa) and three winners of Pulitzer Prizes (Composer Douglas Moore, Historian Allan Nevins, Poet Mark Van Doren). It is also a reservoir of talent that serves the whole metropolis. Such men as Philosopher Irwin Edman, Critic Lionel Trilling and Classicist Gilbert Highet are full-fledged city celebrities. Economist Carl Shoup wrestles with city finances; Historian Harry Carman serves on the Board of Higher Education, and a slew of geologists and planners struggle with the city's water and traffic...
Once upon a time, the jazzman's capital was New Orleans; later came Chicago and Manhattan's 52nd Street. Today, the liveliest center of developing jazz is California, where a cluster of youngsters, still mostly in their 20s, are refining the frenzies of bop into something cooler, calmer and more coherent...
Tears for a Song. For eight months, Prisoner Leriche was quartered in a cluster of straw huts called Camp No. 113, in a valley 50 miles from the China border. It was so remote that the Viet Minh did not bother with barbed wire or close guarding. Of 350 French, Senegalese and North Africans in the camp when Leriche arrived, some 200 died of starvation, beriberi, malaria, dysentery. Yet, grotesquely, Camp 113 was proudly regarded by the Reds as a special operation. It was run by a pair of polished, French-speaking Vietnamese who addressed the prisoners as "Mes chers...
...content with doggedly symmetrical flower vases and stilted mannequins, have picked up the idea, until today Christmas takes up an average 60% of retail store display budgets. Most stores do their own work, are busy months ahead of time. Those who want a custom job turn to the cluster of small firms which make a business of turning windows into wonderlands...