Word: haps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collecting" generals. Actually, he has known most of his brasshat friends since they were young officers. His love affair with the military started in the early '30s, when he was able to give a hard-to-get toy-train switch to the late Air Force General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, who was then a major at Bolling Field. Arnold introduced Marx to General Walter Bedell Smith, now vice chairman of the American Machine & Foundry board, who was then a captain. Said "Beedle" Smith recently: "If anyone had asked me then if I would trade my chance at making brigadier general...
...Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and select Arlington as his burial site; Admiral Robert (North Pole) Peary; Robert Todd Lincoln, James Garfield's Secretary of War, and the only one of Abraham Lincoln's sons to live to manhood ; General Phil Sheridan; Air General Henry ("Hap") Arnold and Admiral Marc ("Turn on the Lights") Mitscher; William Gibbs McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's World War I Secretary of the Treasury; Pianist and Polish Patriot Ignace Jan Paderewski, who rests in Arlington until Poland is free again; Navy Lieut, (j.g.) James V. Forrestal, later the first Secretary...
...which deep religious feeling and incredible brutality could exist side by side. In her novel (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Author Oldenbourg has woven a huge and intricate tapestry of a medieval society so successfully that most people will be happy to look at it - and even hap pier never to have been part...
Four-Star Flyer. Benjamin Wiley Chidlaw, 54, a sturdy six-footer, is accustomed to terse orders and tough assignments. Once, during World War II, the late General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold asked him: "What do you know about designing and building a jet airplane?" He replied, "Nothing much-does anyone?" "Well, Ben," said General Arnold, "you'd better find out. I've decided to put you in charge of the job." Chidlaw pioneered in developing America's first jet (the P-59, with a Bell air frame and General Electric engine). He was given a year...
...Vandenberg way did not include the public martyrdom of a Billy Mitchell or the free-swinging tactics of a "Hap" Arnold. Van ducked involvement in side issues and took long detours around personal feuds. During the "revolt of the admirals" in 1949, with its raucous attack on the 6-36, during the MacArthur hearings of 1951, when the atmosphere was alive with bitterness and emotion, and again last year when the Air Force budget was cut by $5 billion, West Pointer Vandenberg refused to be goaded into name-calling or personal acrimony. Quietly, doggedly, and with great clarity, he plugged...