Word: catletts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. people got two reports on the state of their new Army. One was from Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall. The other was from Brigadier General Harry Lewis Twaddle,† who last week took over the General Staff division (G3) in charge of Army mobilization, operations, organization and training. Gist of both reports: the Army is over the hump. It is far better off than was the U.S. Army of 1917. It will soon be the first Army-in-being, ready to fight, which the U.S. ever had before entering...
...hear about them already. For example, Will Bradley dropped in last Sunday and was tremendously impressed with the music. Then, of course, there are always one or two guests sitting in, and they have included Bobby Hackett, Coleman Hawkins, Lips Page, Pec Wee Russell, Joe Sullivan, and Sidney Catlett. All of these musicians have nothing but the best to say for their less famous colleagues. Furthermore, a number of critics have been pricking up their ears recently. George Frazier drives down from Boston, and George Avakian makes the trek from New York. Really, this is something very special...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Coleman Hawkins and Big Sidney Catlett will be featured at the Crown Hotel jam session in Providence on Sunday. The Hawk is playing a lot of tenor these days any you don't want to miss him ... Record of the week: Jelly Jelly, a slow blues by Earl Hines. Soloists include the Father opening up with some elaborate piano, one of his best recent recorded solos; and a vocal backed by guitar fillins which give the chorus a pleasantly simple contrapuntal quality. Everybody comes in for the finish, and it's stuff like this which makes...
...prevent voluntary self-censorship from making such a thing happen again (TIME, Feb. 17), able George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, had already laid his plans. Last week he completed a thoroughgoing overhaul of his press section, gave it a rank and standing it had never had before. As its new head he appointed one of his crack officers: natty, cosmopolitan Major General Robert Charlwood Richardson. Taken from command of the First Cavalry Division, West Pointer Richardson was sorry to leave his beloved horses, but he knew that the new job was more important. And with a Major General...
...military men indicated last week that they now believed an attempted invasion of Britain might be no further than 60 days away. U. S. Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, who publicly doubted whether the British could successfully resist without U. S. assistance, both guessed April or May. General Marshall thought that by then Germany would be ready with 1,200 squadrons of bombers and fighters, would be able to keep 18,000 planes in action at once, with 18,000 more in reserve, and would have more than 42.000 pilots...