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...first and longest-standing boss was fiery, bombastic Smedley D. Butler, famed soldier-orator of the last generation (TIME, June 20, 1927). Vandegrift served with Old Gimlet Eye at Leon and Coyotepe Hill in Nicaragua; landed with him at Veracruz; fought with him in Haiti; helped pacify the Chinese Nationalists in Shanghai and Tientsin, in the late '20s. Through these years he was the apple of Old Gimlet Eye's eye, and earned himself the nickname of Sunny...
...last General Vandegrift fell heir to command of the Division. Very soon he set out, completely on his own, to lead the most important adventure in Marine Corps history, an attack which even Old Gimlet Eye would have worried about...
...Snow and Washington was digging itself out of a blizzard. The staff was in early, cleared desks, sat down before the hour to wait for the first appearance of the new Old Man. He came in on the dot, slim, stern and businesslike. His staffers caught the gimlet look in his grey eyes, the rudimentary mustache masking a stubborn lip, the swatch of bright ribbons on his chest, the well-tailored uniform, the Corps of Engineers buttons* on the blouse...
Last week President Roosevelt took back his appointment (TIME, April 13) of Major General James Henry Burns to be chief of Army Ordnance. Leaving General Burns as munitions man on the United Nations High Command,* the President chose sandy-haired, gimlet-eyed, rough-tongued Levin H. Campbell Jr., 55, to run Ordnance after June 1, when Major General Charles M. Wesson's four-year term expires...
...three other Armored Divisions were independent units. Under the present reorganization the tankers will have two new bosses: Major General Alvan Gillem Jr., who used to command the Third Armored Division, will take over the newly formed Second Corps; chief of the First Corps will be tough, profane, gimlet-eyed Major General George S. ("Georgie") Patton Jr., variously known to his men as "Flash Gordon," "Old Blood and Guts," "the Green Hornet." Henceforth Generals Gillem and Patton will be No. 2 men to Armored Force Chief Major General Jacob Devers. For Georgie Patton, the promotion indicated that he was finally...