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...Washington, Air Secretary Lovett took one look at U.S. defense nakedness, another at the tremendous lesson of Nazi air victories in Europe, and fought a campaign to get top priorities for a big U.S. bomber fleet. Then, holding down impulsive Air Chief "Hap" Arnold with a gentle hand, he skillfully got the air corps raised to the status of a semi-independent air force...
Long before Pentagon days, Lieut. Colonel George Marshall so impressed General John Pershing. The Navy's Forrest Sherman was taken under the wing of Admiral Chester Nimitz; Lauris Norstad, now top airman in Europe, was tapped by General Hap Arnold. Lieut. General Al Gruenther, generally regarded as the most impressive briefing officer the Pentagon has produced, was once a comer himself, is now Eisenhower's chief of staff at SHAPE. Recently, Gruenther called for the Army's brightest comer, Brigadier General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 50, to serve as his plans officer. He also got the loan...
...Dodge-operated plant had turned out 18,413 engines, cut the cost to the Army by more than one-half (from $26,000 to $12,000 apiece), and kept ahead of schedule every month, despite some 6,274 design changes. Wrote General "Hap" Arnold: "You accomplished what seemed to be the impossible...
...could get in the stage door. Inside, the hullaballoo swelled to Sinatran size, even though, noted one London reviewer, stocky, ruddy-faced Crooner Peers "makes no undernourished appeal to the maternal instinct." From the minute he first let them have it-In a Shady Nook, It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day-in a jolly and effervescent baritone, "like an uncle at a children's party," the fans couldn't get enough of Britain's "Sinatra with blood." By his own stop watch, Welshman Peers bested Sinatra's onstage record of 35 minutes...
Last week the Air Force called Sverdrup to a bigger job. To Aro, Inc., a Sverdrup & Parcel subsidiary, it gave the task of operating its $100 million Arnold (for the late "Hap" Arnold) Engineering Development Center now abuilding at Tullahoma, Tenn. That was fitting enough; Sverdrup's firm drew the plant's blueprints five years...