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...give up his B-29 command for a new - and bigger - job last week. He became chief of staff to General Carl Spaatz, commander of strategic air forces in the Pacific. LeMay's beloved Twentieth Air Force got a new commander. The new man : smooth, handsome Nathan Farragut ("The Champ") Twining, 48, back in the Pacific (where he was once lost at sea for six days) after a distinguished job of long-range bombardment in Europe...
...first time the Navy had helped out the Army at a river. In 1863 Admiral David Farragut sailed monitors, frigates and gunboats up the Mississippi, gave vital help to General Grant in the siege of Vicksburg...
Traitor's Progress. William Curtis Colepaugh, his renegade companion, was a weak-faced, gangling young man who had grown up in Connecticut, had somehow developed a sentimental sense of attachment to "beautiful Germany." He had graduated from Farragut Academy in New Jersey, flunked out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grabbed later as a draft dodger, he joined the Navy, put on such a show of love for the Germans that the Navy discharged him. From then on, it was easy-for a while. Colepaugh sailed to Europe as a messboy on the diplomatic exchange liner Gripsholm, jumped ship...
After reading the article, we are praying that the war will soon be over in Germany so Tallulah Bankhead may take a drink (in public) and the sailors at Farragut Naval Training Center will have their excuse for kissing the local females aged nine...
...MMs/c) MARTIN F. DUNLAP Farragut, Idaho ¶ Let Chessperts Wayne and Dunlap remember that Marshal Tito is a professional revolutionary...