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There was no obvious choice to succeed Vandenberg. Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter vigorously recommended General Curtis E. LeMay, chief of the Strategic Air Command. Hard-boiled Curt LeMay is one of the nation's ablest fighting men, one of the Air Force's best commanders, but he is also a single-minded and conspicuously undiplomatic champion of strategic bombing. The Army and Navy mortally fear that he would set himself against big plans for short-range air support for ground troops and carrier-borne aviation. Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, well aware of the argument...
...camp life. As a Parisian artist-about-town, he caught the elegant manners and shady morals of his contemporaries. Although he lacked Daumier's satiric bite and Rowlandson's ribald bounce, Guys's quick eye and facile technique made him one of Europe's ablest 19th century reporters. Last week, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, some of the best of Guys's reporting was on display in a Paris gallery...
Gallant, flamboyant, brilliant, shrewd, unpredictable and seemingly fearless, Jean de Lattre was one of the ablest soldiers of his time and a patriot without qualification. In an increasingly cynical world, he took the words "honor" and "country" seriously. He would literally blanch at the suggestion that all Frenchmen might not instantly rush to the defense of their country at any time. "That is sacrilege, sacrilege!" he would mutter, and his own deep conviction was enough to spur French pride. He had his small vanities: uniforms tailored by Lanvin, an insistence on low-numbered license plates...
Gossip in Good Taste. The ablest U.S. disciple of Henry James and Edith Wharton in many a year is a 34-year-old Manhattan lawyer named Louis Auchincloss. His special world is inhabited by New York's oldest and richest families. He writes as an insider, and his tools are accuracy and compassion. But he takes his rich so much for granted that he never makes them a fraction as interesting as a wide-eyed outsider could, e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald or John O'Hara...
...Condon was director of the National Bureau of Standards, a subcommittee of the House Un-American Activities Committee called him "one of the weakest links in our atomic security" (TIME, March 15, 1948), but never called him to the stand to reply to the charge. Rated one of the ablest men in the Government, Dr. Condon was stoutly defended by many of the country's top scientists...