Word: myers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...duty officer at the Pentagon routed General Lightnin' Joe Collins out of bed at 5:30 one morning last week to read him the first pink secret dispatch about the Chinese counteroffensive. Collins rubbed his eyes and dialed General Omar Bradley, asleep in House No. 1 at Fort Myer, Va. All that day the Pentagon's brass-level was gloomy with misgivings. Next morning the whole thing exploded when Douglas MacArthur defined "the entirely...
...Howard Mitchell of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra decided to give his open-air concert audience a noisy treat last summer by playing the 1812 Overture as Tchaikovsky had scored it, with real cannon blasting away in the finale. The cannon-tutti, performed by soldiers from nearby Fort Myer on four 75-mm. howitzers, went off without a hitch, was a big success with capital concertgoers...
...their zeal to dredge up the facts about bookmaking in Florida, the Senate's committee investigating gambling last week chatted with J. Myer Schine, a stolid, sharply dressed man of affairs, whose necklace of eight hotels and about 135 movie theaters includes a beach-front palace in Atlantic City, and the cheaply expensive Roney Plaza in Miami Beach...
...bookies," who hung around picking up bets where they could find them. As the orderly owner of a real classy hotel, he knew this was a situation which should be corrected-what the Roney Plaza needed was a reliable, responsible bookie, not a bunch of fly-by-nights. So Myer Schine eventually made a deal with Frank Erickson, the Mr. Big of U.S. bookmaking, who went to jail after a Senate subcommittee got through with him (TIME, July 3). Schine gave the Roney Plaza bookmaking concession to Erickson...
Died. General Muir S. ("Sandy") Fairchild, 55, No. 2 man of the U.S. Air Force (Vice Chief of Staff); of coronary thrombosis; at Fort Myer...