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...draped in the American Flag itself and preceded by a guard of honor. But while civilian critics used to consider MacArthur a swashbuckling, colorful, impeccably dressed soldier with a penchant for the William Jennings Bryan type of oratory, most of his Army contemporaries thought him a strict disciplinarian, a magnificent leader of men in action, a first-class fighting...
Training Center students do the same things a doughboy does, often under tougher conditions. Under big, hardboiled, disciplinarian Lieut. Colonel Leigh Bell, onetime line coach at U.C.L.A., they are broken out at 6:15 a.m., spend the rest of the day at everything from close-order drill to digging emplacements. In wrinkled fatigue uniforms, with packs on their backs, they pile through mud and brambles, scrape out fox holes and rifle pits whenever their "noncom" gives the word. To serve as their enemy in mock warfare, the Training Center employs maneuver-wise enlisted men. Students who make mistakes hear about...
...unteaching as well as teaching. Like Leahy, he was lucky enough to inherit from last year's freshman ranks one flashy newcomer: Halfback Ralph Hill, who lopes like a gazelle and can stop on a dime. With Hill and a little shuffling of old hands, Blaik, a strict disciplinarian and master strategist, came up with a winning combination. So far, Army has blasted The Citadel, Virginia Military Institute, Yale and Columbia. Practically the same Army team won only one game last year-a 20-to-19 victory over little Williams...
There have been especially heavy increases in air power, under the command of cyclonic Brigadier General Henry Black Clagett, who entered West Point (1902), when Douglas MacArthur was a first classman and who, like MacArthur, is impatient of sloppy soldiering, a stern disciplinarian. Henry Clagett's immediate superior and MacArthur's No. 1 man is leather-dimpled Major General George Grunert, in command of the Philippine regulars for the past year...
Toward his men, Sir Percy is precise, unostentatious, efficient in a banker's quiet way rather than with the bluff explosiveness most commanding salts are supposed to have. But he is a stiff rewards-and-punishment disciplinarian of the old grog and rod school. He has had two wives, but he is married to the Navy. When he was appointed Commander in Chief of the Western Approaches, his wife said: "My husband has one hobby, the Navy...