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...Pacific, flatly said "yes." But from the Pentagon across the Potomac, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson said "no" - the Japs' failure to retaliate against Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet and the Superfortresses merely meant that they were hoarding "plenty" of planes against invasion. Another air admiral, DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, new Fifth Fleet chief of staff, defined "plenty." He estimated the enemy hoard at 9,000 planes...
Next day, George DeWitt was no longer the Times-Herald's managing editor. Washington heard that he had told Cissie Patterson, "either that layout goes, or I go." The layout stayed...
...subsidized" and "myth of reprint" were horrid words to his ears, the Digest's tall, balding DeWitt Wallace (with his wife, co-editor and co-owner) gave no sign of it. Said he: "The unusual growth of the Digest in the past ten years has been due in no small degree to the opposition, from time to time, of various magazines. It has had a highly salutary effect in keeping us on our toes editorially. We believe that the product will continue to speak for itself...
Through the centuries wise men and fools have tried to define an Englishman and say how he got to be what he is. The latest such attempt is by Leland Dewitt Baldwin, an American historian, who put his witty, epigrammatic findings in a book and called it God's Englishman (Little, Brown...
...General DeWitt is one of three brothers, all generals, all born at Army posts. The others: Brigadier General Wallace DeWitt (the eldest), medical officer of a West Coast port of embarkation; Brigadier General Calvin DeWitt Jr., now deputy commander of a big eastern port of embarkation. Their father was an Army doctor who retired as a brigadier general. Their sister married an Army officer...