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Drummed out of his command of the 24th Infantry Division on charges of playing partisan politics, Major General Edwin A. Walker, 51, wallowed for five months in a colonel's billet at U.S. European Army headquarters in Heidelberg. But last week came word of his release from Pentagon purgatory and reassignment to Hawaii, where he will become assistant chief of staff for training and operations in the Pacific-a prestigious post indicating that the combat-proved Texan still had a shot at a third star...
...young lieutenant (George Hamilton) rides into Fort Canby, Ariz., his new billet...
...leaders cannot effectively fight for the kind of Navy we all want if they must be forever explaining away or defending some counter-policy utterance made by a well-intentioned but irresponsible officer." His instructions: "Recognize and accept your responsibility by insisting on being quoted by name, rank and billet...
...desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle. For years he wore hand-me-down suits and homemade paper collars, was even driven to scrounging for cigarette butts in Vienna's gutters. Drafted into the Austrian army, he rebelliously rejected discipline, wangled a Vienna billet, went on painting. It was not until the last year of his life that he had his first moneymaking show...
...Politics. During the war, Nixon was a naval officer, and Pat dutifully followed him from billet to domestic billet-Washington, Ottumwa, Iowa, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, methodically getting a new job, buying secondhand furniture and setting up house in each post. While he was on duty in the Pacific, she lived in a boardinghouse in San Francisco, worked as an OPA economist. At war's end, Lieut. Commander Nixon and his lady were stationed in Baltimore. Pat was pregnant, and the future was uncertain. Then a now-famous telegram came from Whittier: a "Committee of One Hundred" active Republicans...