Word: commanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...cities in which "sloppy speech" is most prevalent are Brooklyn, Atlanta, Chicago ("Most people sound like they are either being chased by gangsters or are running for trains"), Hollywood and Ypsilanti, Mich. Replied the Mayor of Ypsilanti: "Anyone who can even pronounce 'Ypsilanti' has a great command of the language...
...Force's Major General Orvil A. (for Arson) Anderson, kicked out of his job as head of the Air War College for advocating preventive war with Russia (TIME, Sept. 11), got a new assignment: command of the 3750th Technical Training Wing at Wichita Falls, Texas, which turns out aircraft mechanics, hydraulic specialists, riggers, armorers, and other ground crewmen, has nothing to do with global strategy...
Under MacArthur, few commanders played a more important role than "Ned" Almond in saving Korea from Red aggression. The war was hardly a fortnight old and the U.N. forces were still beating a dismal retreat, when the Chief of Staff was told to start thinking of an end run around the enemy's line. Inchon was picked as the place for an amphibious assault, despite its treacherous tide and seawall. "Who's going to command the landing force?" asked the Chief of Staff. "You are," said MacArthur...
...stage was set for the final battle in the "police action" in Korea. This week General Douglas MacArthur broadcast his second ultimatum to the North Koreans: "I, as the United Nations Commander in Chief, for the last time call upon you and the forces under your command, in whatever part of Korea situated, forthwith to lay down your arms and cease hostilities." MacArthur was ready to hit the Communists above the 38th parallel with another coordinated air-sea-ground offensive...
...loosening his grip on the editorial direction of his surviving daily, the tabloid Chicago Sun-Times (circ. over 610,000 daily). Last fall, though he kept the title of publisher, Field gave 34-year-old Marshall Field Jr. a lift up the ladder; he gave him day-to-day command of the news room to be shared with 50-year-old Managing Editor Milburn ("Pete") Akers (TIME, Nov. 14). This week, the elder Field made the transfer of power complete. He gave up his title of publisher, though he remained on the masthead as president, and made Marsh Field editor...