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...Army's most unusual brother combination received a new honor last week. Barney McKinney Giles, Chief of Air Staff, was boosted from major general to lieutenant general. The promotion put Barney two steps ahead of his twin brother, Brigadier General Benjamin Franklin Giles, in their private family competition, now about to enter its 25th year...
Both went to the University of Texas and planned to be lawyers, but World War I changed that. Barney went straight in as an air cadet; Benny was commissioned an infantry shavetail but switched to aviation in less than a month. Both saw service in the U.S. and France; Benny busted a German balloon eight days before the Armistice in 1918. The brothers liked the service, and became Regular Army officers in July...
...varied tours of duty, covering virtually all phases of the Air Forces, the twins waged their cheerful feud for promotion. Ben was the first captain; Barney beat him to a majority by six weeks. Ben jumped ahead again in getting rank as lieutenant colonel and colonel, but Barney was right behind and beat his brother to a brigadier general's star by five months...
...following squib is supposed to be the straight dope, even though it comes from the Chicago Tribune. "Only last Saturday night, recalled the witness, he saw '100 semi-officers of the Navy' eating at Barney's. He later identified the semi officers' as onsigns." Leave us be discreet, Duffy...
...unfilial a show of plain-&-fancy mudslinging as U.S. politics had seen in many a day. Against Bill Bullitt stood an odd combination: the G.O.P. machine and Communists who still smarted from ex-Ambassador Bullitt's lack of tact toward the Soviet Union in 1933-36. For Barney Samuel stood many a plain Philadelphian who was just simply leary of Bill Bullitt's attitude of elegant distaste. But there was a series of below-the-belt assaults on both candidates' patriotism, ancestry and personal morals. From unidentified quarters Bullitt was pictured as 1) Jewish, 2) anti-Jewish...