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...plays a little dollar-golf or gin rummy. He has little time these days for his stable of blooded mares, and gone are his jaunts to Scottish shooting boxes, to fox hunts in the South. His preSun career sounded like the plot of a Ronald Colman movie (English schools, the Argonne and St. Mihiel, industry, investment banking). Now, Multimillionaire Field, newly realistic, has traded it all for hard, unremitting work...
...bare frame office building at Selfridge Field, Mich., this week a trial board of ten Air Force colonels convened a general court-martial to hear charges against Colonel William T. Colman, former commander of the field (TIME...
...snooting of Willie McRae, a Negro private at the field; procuring unlawful transfers of enlisted men and noncoms to Selfridge; accepting a vacation lodge from the father of two unlawfully transferred men; obtaining the transfer of Private Benson Ford (grandson of Henry Ford) to Selfridge. On all charges, Colonel Colman pleaded not guilty...
Unmilitary goings-on at Selfridge Field came to a boil with the McRae shooting May 5. The War Department has prepared charges against some of Col. Colman's associates, but is not likely to make them public before the end of his trial, which is expected to take about three weeks...
...store for us "up and coming" disbursing, supply, administrative, management, statistical, procurement, negotiating, inspecting, beer-drinking officers in the "interim." But let's not give up all hope, Maybe we'll all go to Shangri-La to see how the monastery keeps its books, with Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt...