Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G. ADAMS Toronto...
World War II: In February, 1942, G-2's Norstad was called to the office of General "Hap" Arnold, thought he was about to be bawled out for an argument with a senior general, instead was told: "What I need is someone to help me do my thinking. That's your job now." With that mandate Norstad became the Air Forces' hottest young planner, helped map the air-war plan that placed emphasis first on the European theater, then on the Pacific. He was air-operations officer for the Twelfth Air Force under Jimmy Doolittle...
...week he was in the Paris suburb of Levallois, putting 28 pupils through their paces in what seemed to be an ordinary class in penmanship. But whether he told a pupil to keep on making long strings of , or to concentrate on such rounded letters as a, b, and g, he always had his reasons. At 47, Raymond Trillat is known in Paris school circles by a high-sounding and eminently respectable title: grapho-therapist...
...Thomas E. Stakem Jr., 48, a career civil service man, was picked by President Eisenhower for a $15,000-a-year seat on the three-man Federal Maritime Board, regulator of merchant shipping routes and subsidies. He succeeds Joseph G. Minetti, who was appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board. The first Government career man ever to serve on the maritime unit, Stakem worked his way through college and law school in Washington, D.C. as a $900-a-year clerk in the U.S. Patent Office. He joined the FBI in 1934, quit nine years later to head investigations of skulduggery...
Medical Opinion. In El Paso, ex-Private Ygnacio G. Herrera gave himself up 14 years after he deserted from the Army, explained his disappearance during World War II: "I deserted because my mother was sick. She's better...