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...bristled with readiness. His officers wore their sidearms at desks, at meals and in the air; his "A.P.s" (air police-Air Force for M.P.s) cradled loaded carbines ready for sabotage or parachute attack. Even ground crewmen worked at their big planes with their guns beside them. At one base Curt LeMay strode by a master sergeant who had laid aside his piece to dive into his lunch bag. The C.G. rounded up all the maintenance men for one of his longer speeches. "This afternoon," said he, "I found one man guarding a hangar with a ham sandwich. There will...
...milkshaky unpreparedness that enveloped the occupation troops of Germany and Japan. The Strategic Air Command (known to the Air Force as SAC) was a $310 million-a-year business, a top-priority task force with 1,100 planes, some 60,000 pilots, crewmen and groundmen. For 22 rugged months Curt LeMay had been holding them all to a relentless, competitive training schedule. With an impersonal assortment of charts and graphs -his "numbers racket," he called them -he kept a sharp, hazel-eyed watch on everything from bombing accuracy (up 500%) to venereal-disease rates...
...after long, slow shakedown, it is now admiringly known as "the magnesium monster," and the SACmen are ready to battle anyone who says it isn't the best bomber in the world. When the Navy insisted a year ago that the B-36 could be shot down, Curt LeMay shot back a blunt answer...
Thanks mainly to bonus Pitchers Curt Simmons (15-7) and Robin Roberts (16-5), as well as spectacular relief pitching by Jim Konstanty (10-4), the Phillies have pushed ahead of their early season promise, when shrewd, hustling Manager Eddie Sawyer was insisting they were just a good bet for third (TIME...
...their National Guard units for annual maneuvers: ist Lieut. Harold Arthur, 46, governor of Vermont and onetime boy whistling prodigy; Curt Simmons, 21, ace southpaw hurler (won 14, lost 5) who has helped spark the Philadelphia Phillies to the top of the National League...