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...there was more trouble. Chennault was also at loggerheads with his Air Forces superior, bemedaled, autocratic Brigadier General Clayton L. Bissell, World War I hero and commander of the Tenth Air Force, whose headquarters are in India. Both feuds were connected, because Bissell is also Stilwell's executive in the Far East. The Army last week was anxiously trying to straighten out the row between these three seasoned soldiers. Airmen hopefully predicted that there would be a shake-up that would leave Chennault in command of a separate China Air Force...
...Cleveland Press Reporter Clayton Fritchey scouted the countryside, came back with grisly pictures of carcasses in rat-ridden, blood-stained slaughter barns (see cut), a shocking story of racketeers who had already sidetracked 40% of the city's meat supply...
...Harold Clayton Urey (1934), Columbia University professor of chemistry, deeply concerned with the social consequences of science, discoverer of "heavy hydrogen" and "tagged atoms...
Last to go was tall, 20-year-old Howard Clayton Cook, a State boxing champion, who joined the Navy. Before him, 89 other town youths had signed up in the Army or Navy. When Howard Cook went D'Lo ceased being just a stop on Gulf & Ship Island Railroad: proud citizens figured it was the first town in the nation to hang out a 100% service flag...
...Clayton Douglass Buck, 52, Delaware, a shy, reserved engineer, banker and gentleman farmer who has been called Delaware's "least-known prominent citizen." A descendant of one of the State's oldest families, a relative of the Du Ponts by marriage, he has made a career of public service: in the State Highway Department for nine years, as Governor for eight...