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...weeks just before Dday, he usually began his day at the stereotyped U.S. military hour of 5 a.m. He lived with his close personal friend and naval aide, Commander Harry Butcher, peacetime CBS vice president, and his orderly, Sergeant "Micky" McKeogh, onetime bellboy at New York's Plaza Hotel, in an unpretentious eight-room cottage near headquarters. One room was full of gymnasium paraphernalia, which the general studiously avoided except upon rare occasions when he took an exasperated belt, in passing, out of the punching...
Sergeant McKeogh has been with the general since Eisenhower picked him as a driver at the 1941 maneuvers. Commander Butcher's role has puzzled many civilians, although veteran officers understand it well. As a general moves up in the military scale, he becomes surrounded with a loneliness not unlike that which enfolds the master of a ship...
...Next to Butcher, Ike's closest colleague is clever, tireless General Beedle Smith, whom Eisenhower baldly describes as the best chief of staff in the world. It is with Smith that Ike holds his longest daily sessions on the progress of the invasion. Until he can move to the Continent, Ike will probably also see a good deal of Winston Churchill, with whom he has recently been lunching regularly twice a week at No. 10 Downing St. The two get along splendidly. Churchill calls Eisenhower "Ike." The general calls Churchill "Sir," or "Prime...
Sally is the only female aide extant in the top Allied command. Recently she was discussing an aide's tribulations with Eisenhower's aide, Commander Harry C. ("Butch") Butcher, and wound up with an artless: "But of course I like it. ... After all, it's really women's work, isn't it?" For once, smooth-tongued Butch was speechless. Someone told Tooey about it, and he spread the story with fiendish glee...
...from Worcester; a lawyer; a section hand; a real-estate dealer; a professional roller skater; the 25 -year-old assistant office manager of a wholesale grocery firm in Allentown; an employe of the Arkansas Power and Light Co.; a brakeman on the New York Central; a 22 -year-old butcher from Fresno...