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...after Pearl Harbor, Marshall made him assistant chief of war plans, then chief, then ordered Ike to draw up an organization plan for the European Theater. So well was it drawn that, on Marshall's urging, Franklin Roosevelt reached far down through the ranks to appoint Ike the ETO's Commander in Chief...
...happened, he never got to the front, played in Army bands on the Coast and in the ETO (where he rarely traveled with fewer than three liberated pianos). He was home again in 1946, determined to be a composer. He played the piano in local joints and studied with France's famed Darius Milhaud at Mills College. Teacher Milhaud filled him with counterpoint and polytonality, fired him with the conviction that improvisation of jazz was as valid for him as the improvisation of toccatas and fugues was for Bach. "He told me," says Dave, "if I didn...
...into the Spanish-American War as a first sergeant): the fourth star of a full general. Ben Lear was a well-rounded enough soldier to ride on the U.S. horsemen's team in the 1912 Olympics, smart enough to serve as General Dwight Eisenhower's ETO Deputy Commander in 1945. But he will probably rack up his chief fame in military annals as the iron-willed disciplinarian ("No mistake should ever go uncorrected") who nearly marched the brogans off a high-spirited battalion of trainees in 1941 after the lads had yoo-hooed at some barelegged girls...
...with ... a large unit, and we jump regularly from all types of aircraft . . . Leaping . . . with a full fieldpack, a rifle, extra equipment plus a large, 75-lb. general-purpose container, makes the stoic little Russian's feat appear rather tame by comparison. But . . . this big tough Russian murmuring "Eto Nichevo," as he [disen tangled himself from] his warning buzzers and portable political tutors after landing "near the white chalk cross," is what prompted me to write . . . All my friends here in Combat Control would like to extend a formal invitation to the U.S.S.R. parachute-jumping team to a spot...
...That Russian was playing on his chute like an organist," marveled a pop-eyed observer at the Second International Parachute Jumping Championships of Saint-Yan last week. "Eto Nichevo," shrugged the jumper. "It was nothing. Everyone on my team...