Word: curtness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Force has just as broad a base of major command talent. General Curtis LeMay, who built SAC into a powerful ready-force, has been moved to Washington as Vandenberg's vice chief of staff (TIME, March 10). Curt LeMay switched jobs with General Nathan Twining, who helped build up SAC's World War II predecessor, the B-29 Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific. Vandenberg is well anchored in Europe with Lieut. General Lauris Norstad, Eisenhower's air chief at SHAPE and commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; and in the Pacific with Lieut. General Otto...
...Philadelphia Pitcher Curt Simmons, 22, after 20 months in the Army (mainly on occupation duty in Germany), shucked off his fatigues for baseball flannel and pitched a winning seven-hitter, 8-2, against the Chicago Cubs...
Philadelphia also has a chance to go all the way this time, but a second thought ranks them in third behind the Brooks. Curt Simmons is back now to head the second best pitching staff in the league, and the hitting should also improve...
...Your Services Shall Cease." In the morning, McGrath sent a curt letter to Morris. "Please be informed . . . your services . . . shall cease at the close of business today." Morris, cocky as ever, replied, measuring the words: "I've-never-been-fired-before . . . I'm not mad at anybody ... I don't care very much, as long as my wife loves me." Later, during a soliloquy for the benefit of newsmen, while he fed peanuts to the pigeons in Lafayette Square, he added: "I've been fired, and now all the influence peddlers can come back again...
There was no obvious choice to succeed Vandenberg. Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter vigorously recommended General Curtis E. LeMay, chief of the Strategic Air Command. Hard-boiled Curt LeMay is one of the nation's ablest fighting men, one of the Air Force's best commanders, but he is also a single-minded and conspicuously undiplomatic champion of strategic bombing. The Army and Navy mortally fear that he would set himself against big plans for short-range air support for ground troops and carrier-borne aviation. Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, well aware of the argument...