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Competent Major General George Grunert, whom MacArthur superseded as commander of U.S. Army Forces, had laid the ground work for vigorous defense before he left. MacArthur set about bringing his more than 20,000 Filipino regulars under U.S. command and prepared for the gradual incorporation of more than 125,-ooo Filipino reserves. Racing against time, MacArthur demanded, and began to receive, a sizable trickle from the spigot of U.S. production. Transports threaded the maze of the island waterways, bringing U.S. troops, planes, technicians, tanks. Out of the East, Flying Fortresses roared to secret concentrations within the islands...
...cyclonic Brigadier General Henry Black Clagett, who entered West Point (1902), when Douglas MacArthur was a first classman and who, like MacArthur, is impatient of sloppy soldiering, a stern disciplinarian. Henry Clagett's immediate superior and MacArthur's No. 1 man is leather-dimpled Major General George Grunert, in command of the Philippine regulars for the past year...
...closely contested loss to Harvard of last year. When the West Pointers invade Harvard next week, the Crimson team will have a chance to retrieve its loss. ARMY HARVARD Wing, Cusack, Thinnes, No. 1 No. 1, Cooke Brandt, Rodgers, Anderson, No. 2 No. 2, Kimball, Luton Haskell, Beebe, Grunert, No. 3 No. 3, Nicholas...
Score--Army 24, Harvard 0. Goals--Wing 5, Brandt 2, Haskell 4, Cusack 3, Rodgers 3, Beebe 5, Grunert 2. Time--six 7 1-2 minute chukkers. Referee--Lieut. Clendenin...