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...Tank production is about three months behind schedule-so far that the U.S. 2nd Armored Division sailed for Germany last month equipped only with old World War II tanks. At Cadillac's new Cleveland plant, many light T-41 Walker Bulldogs are standing useless because of a shortfall in traversing mechanisms. The Army's Detroit arsenal is still the only other U.S. tank producer in full swing, has just begun to produce an improved version of the postwar General Patton tank (plus modernizing several hundred World War II Pershings, mostly for Korea). Principal trouble: the arsenal is used...
...Colonel Stalin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for bravery in combat, in 1944 was mentioned in his father's Order of the Day, again for bravery. Said Pravda: "He has continually made a brilliant record in heaviest fighting." Vasily got the Order of Suvorov, 2nd Class, and command of the 16th Air Division (50 planes), based at Dallgow Field near Potsdam. Red airmen say that he just about ran the entire 16th Air Division, since its nominal head, Colonel General Leonid Rudenko, carefully deferred to Joe Stalin's 25-year...
...whisked down to Flirtation Walk, proud families and friends conducted through garden parties, receptions and trophy-filled museums. Then one morning last week, 475 white-belted, swallow-tailed graduates filed gravely to the rostrum, saluted Academy Superintendent Major General Frederick A. Irving, received their diplomas (B.S.) and commissions as 2nd lieutenants in the Regular Army...
...ashore at Wonsan last November with West Pointers leading three of its four platoons. By February, two had been killed and the lone survivor, All-America Quarterback Arnold Galiffa, had been taken out of front-line combat to become General Ridgway's aide. In another company, in the 2nd Division, one of its three West Point platoon leaders was killed, the other two wounded. Football Captain John Trent ('50) was killed three days after arriving in Korea; 1st Lieut. Samuel Coursen of the 1949 class was killed last October, rescuing a G.I. trapped in an enemy-held dugout...
After a World War I stint in the Navy (he enlisted as a 2nd class cook, ended up a special agent for the War Trade Board), Weinberg became a securities trader. In seven years he had enough money ($104,000) to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1927 became a partner in Goldman, Sachs. As Weinberg's fame as a shrewd judge of stocks and men spread through the Street, so did his influence. He became director of more than a dozen corporations, including such giants as Sears, Roebuck, B. F. Goodrich, Cluett, Peabody, Continental...