Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring of 1945, Richard F. French '37, assistant professor of Music, was Technical Sergeant Richard F. French, cryptographic technician 805, stationed in Paris. For ten weeks, French got up early Sunday mornings and stood in line for a ticket to the 5:30 p.m. concerts of the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, then conducted by Charles Munch, Finally, he wrote a letter to A. Tillman Merritt, professor of Music and now chairman of the Music Department asking, "have you ever heard of a conductor named Charles Munch? He seems to me to be the logical choice to succeed Koussevitzky in Boston...
Judge Willie Bob took a daring step: he organized a county police force to compete with the sheriff's office. Big, mean, 29-year-old Ambrose Metcalfe, who had served as a sergeant in an armored division during World War II, became its captain. He swaggered out to "throw the fear of God" into Harlan County...
Bottleneck. In Horsham, England, police were making little progress in solving a burglary until they put some extra men on the case to help Police Sergeant William J. Wykes, got results when Wykes was arrested as the culprit...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressed the "grave concern" of the U.S. Government, and the State Department finally wrung from the Czech foreign office a promise that U.S. officials could interview the imprisoned soldiers. A hardbitten old sergeant from the pair's old outfit, the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, voiced his own position more succinctly. Said he: "If them lunkheads is spies, I'm Mata Hari...
Lieut. Leroux and four other gendarmes drove to Bazouges, where Leroux and his sergeant climbed up the church bell tower. There they found a bicycle repairman and a carriagemaker smoking their pipes and swinging the clapper against the big bell...