Word: artillerist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artillerist Gruenther first came to public attention eleven years ago, when the public was more interested in bridge games than in soldiers. Lieut. Gruenther used to drive the 35 miles daily from West Point to Manhattan to referee bloodthirsty bridge games between Ely Culbertson and Sidney Lenz. Early in the morning, at the end of the matches, before the reporters could write their 2,000 daily words, he tumbled on to a mattress in the back of his car and fell sound asleep while Mrs. Gruenther drove back to the Military Academy. By 8 o'clock he was teaching...
Pleased as anyone at the Air Forces' recognition of P-47's good qualities was the Thunderbolt's father, a quiet, wiry onetime Russian Army artillerist named Alexander Kartveli. In the great group effort of aviation design, many a man who has put new craft in the air has escaped public attention. One such is 45-year-old Designer Kartveli...
After World War I, Artillerist Kartveli went to France, studied aeronautics, supported himself for a year by a trapeze act in a circus. Meanwhile he learned to fly. His passion was the all-metal airplane. He designed one in 1927-a failure. But by last fall he was a recognized designer at Republic, the head of a department of 200 engineers (who call him Mister...
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