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...having his soldiers cough when he speaks and has a picture of Rommel pinned over his bed). Jack Belden, TIME'S roving correspondent in the East, probably knows General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell better than any other correspondent alive (he was with him on that long, nerve-racking, bug-bitten trek out of Burma into India)-and he can also tell you about the personal characteristics of most of the American flyers in China, from the youngest pilot to cribbage-playing Brigadier General Claire Chennault and his Flying Tiger mascot-dachshund...
Amazed but pleased was hard-bitten Track Foreman Tom Stamos, as he watched his students and clerks and professional men handle the heavy rails under the hot western sun. "They work,- how they work...
Husky, square-jawed Captain Joseph J. Foss, ranking U.S. ace, returned to Guadalcanal from leave all ready to better his score of 23 enemy planes. He lost no time doing so. Before his hard-bitten competitors in Marine Fighting Squadron 223 could say "mess kit," he had knocked down three more Zeros. On the basis of last week's news, Joe Foss had already equaled Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's record of World War I: 26 aircraft...
This assault is actually nothing new: it started in a small way about four years ago, gradually highballed into a big push. First in the field was prophetic, hard-bitten Lewis S. Rosenstiel, board chairman of giant Schenley Distillers. His company paid $300,000 for venerable Cresta Blanca
Lieut. Joseph L Lockard, the ex-private who got the D.S.M. for reporting the approach of enemy planes at Pearl Harbor, was again assigned to Honolulu-frost-bitten Honolulu, Alaska...