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Horses to Tanks. Adna Romanza Chaffee began Army life as a cavalryman. He had a good reason: his father was a famous cavalryman who distinguished himself in the Spanish-American War, was Chief of Staff in 1904-06. Adna too loved horses and got to be a top Army poloist before World War I. On staff duty in France, he saw that the intense fire of machine guns and artillery had outmoded cavalry in battle zones. Unlike some cavalrymen, he took the lesson to heart, looked around for some substitute for the mobile striking power which cavalry once provided...
General Devers succeeds able 56-year-old Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, a reformed cavalryman who pioneered tank warfare in the Army when tanks were noisy nuisances, but fell victim to ill health just after the Armored Force was organized under his command last year. Most of General Chaffee's key subordinates are also ex-cavalrymen who have suspected and bitterly opposed an attempt by the jealous Infantry to get control of the Armored Force. As a horse artilleryman who has recently commanded an Infantry division, General Devers is a logical choice to quash such rivalries, weld tank, infantry...
That these trials of the most turbulent 18 months in the history of Great Britain did not keep Producer Gabriel Pascal from turning out a polished and distinguished product is a transcendent Oscar in the onetime cavalryman's lap. The squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, determined to use his hard-won franchise on the world's richest mine of entertainment material, not only had to play cook & bottle washer but also had the redoubtable Shavian personality to contend with...
...great-grandfather was famed, hotheaded Confederate Cavalryman Jeb Stuart. Her initial E stands for Elizabeth; she dropped the name to spite her twice-divorced mother. With 20 Ib. less, Stuart might be called a Scarlett O'Hara type. She traveled in Europe and Mexico, attended two private schools, knows the Greenwich Village nightclubs, drives two big cars furiously and admits she has turned down ten marriage proposals. Once she gave a house party that lasted six weeks. Boss of a 1,200-acre estate, Axton Lodge, Stuart lives alone with an old colored mammy and an adopted brother...
...should be. Remount is bossed by an ex-cavalryman, tall, tweedy Colonel Edwin Noel Hardy of Tennessee. Devout horseman, he glories in the 14,000 foals a year that Remount stallions are siring-a value of $1.500,000 at a cost of $80,000. In his Washington office he points proudly to a wall map stuck full of red pins. It is no tactical map; it is full of horse interest. Says West Pointer Hardy, "Wherever you see a pin, suh, theah stands a stallion...