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Wainwright's formal qualifications for leadership were good but not extraordinary. Born at Fort Walla Walla, Wash., where his father was serving, he went to West Point and built himself an orthodox career in the cavalry. He served with the ist Cavalry, fought the Moros in the Philippines, had a succession of combat staff jobs in France in World War I, and went through the usual round of peacetime assignments. In 1940, as a temporary major general, he was sent to command the Philippine division. On Pearl Harbor Day, Wainwright was senior field commander under Douglas MacArthur...
Skinny Wainwright never fully recovered from the physical effects of his captivity. In August 1947, a four-star general and a Medal of Honor man, he retired from command of the U.S. Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. To be near the post that is most beloved to old soldiers, he took a job as board chairman of a Texas food-store chain. He and his wife lived comfortably but quietly, for his health was poor. He called their small shaded house in San Antonio Fiddlers Green...
Last week, eight years to the day after the surrender of his Japanese enemies, General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 70, died of a stroke. After his funeral service, a detail of Fourth Army soldiers escorted his body out of Fort Sam's chapel to the post gate. Behind the coffin, his orderly led a cavalry horse with an empty saddle, the general's spurred boots reversed in the stirrups, and the sword he had once surrendered on Corregidor hanging stiffly at the side...
...West Barrington. R.I., Confederate flags replaced the traditional red flags used to show where tournament players' golf balls lie in the rough. In the all-Southern final of the National Women's Amateur golf championship were Fort Worth's Polly Riley. 27, and Mary Lena Faulk. 27. of Thomasville, Ga. After firing a brilliant morning round of 73 strokes at the Rhode Island Country Club (women's par: 74), Georgia's Faulk wobbled somewhat in the broiling (100°) afternoon, but held enough of her morning edge to beat Texan Riley...
Close Ranks. Since he is staying on in Washington as Radford's NATO assistant, Collins (who is not called "Lightning Joe" for nothing) reacted fast. He learned that the spacious quarters at Fort Myer, which Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg had occupied,* were still vacant, and that Van's successor as Air Chief, General Nate Twining, had no plans to move into them. Collins called Ridgway and suggested, with the fervor of a real-estate agent, that the Vandenberg house, with its panoramic view of the city, might be just the thing for him. But Ridgway...