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...Arnall, the appointment ends five years of political exile, and Arnall is a politician from sole to crown. Son of a well-to-do Newnan, Ga. businessman, young Ellis captured five top campus offices at the University of Georgia, graduated first in his law class ('31). Elected to the state legislature at 26, Arnall rocketed upward as floor leader, assistant attorney general, attorney general. In 1942, the "boy wonder" flashed into national prominence when he beat the late Gene Talmadge for the governorship...
...when he was an infantry captain, cut off and trapped in a German-held segment of the Argonne. Last week four of the surviving men - Patrick J. Carroll, N.Y., Peter Finucane, The Bronx, Richard Foy, N.J. and John Duffy, Brooklyn - plus his old orderly, Samuel Silverstein, Camp Gordon, Ga., learned that Judge Patterson had left each of them a token bequest...
...U.M.T. bill may be ready for a House vote within three weeks. Representative Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committe, said yesterday he plans to whip the bill into shape by February 26 for its first test on Capitol Hill...
...earlier plan was proposed by Representative Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) off January 5. Vinson, head of the Armed Services Committee, called for men 17 to 19 years old to volunteer for a six-month training period, followed by another 18 months in the active reserve...
...necessary controls except the rudder, they say, can be built into its trailing edge. And a fast-acting electronic auto-pilot can be added to stop the bucking and pitching that have been known to flip a tailless plane into the beginning of a fatal somersault. But the GA-5, as an added measure of safety, carries a small delta tail high on its rakish...