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...role demands. Edward Thommen, who frequently directs shows at Poets', recovers early from a shaky start, where he seems self-conscious as the Victorian dandy, to exude high humor in the finale which he plays behind a stunning make-up job. Others in the cast include Catherine Huntington, Gail Kepner, Robert Leibacher, and John Coe. The last act set, the California patio scene, is designed with a real satirical flavor by Lester Gediman...
GUIDED missiles in the U.S. are ten years behind the rest of the world, says Lieut. General William E. Kepner, a World War II air commander and now executive vice president of Bell Aircraft Corp. "The designs for our guided-missile systems were on German drafting boards at least ten years ago. They have also been on Russian drafting boards. We are hurrying to catch up, and I hope...
...Airman Kepner was remarkably well fitted to be top boss in a crucial tri-service operation. As a youngster he had done a hitch in the Marines, later had marched with the Army infantry on the Mexican border. In 1917, he was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the cavalry, fought through the toughest land battles of World War I in France and won a D.S.C. for leading a patrol into a German machine-gun nest. Between wars he became an Army expert on ballooning (in 1934 got to 60,613 feet in the Explorer I before she ripped apart...
Cold Facts. Kepner needs more soldiers, more planes, more guns and more radar to fend off any "one-shot deal." That, like everything else in Alaska, is more difficult than it sounds. The Pentagon can't send more people until there is more housing. Already at lonely Eielson, troops are living in portable Fiberglas and canvas shelters. At Fort Richardson, 1,100 men are crammed into a new 500-man barracks; officers and noncoms with families live in squalid hovels, pay extortionate rents. The Air Force had long had to beg Congress for its Alaskan housing money. Now costs...
Last spring, Ike Eisenhower told Congress that Alaskan defenses were in no shape to meet the potentialities of war. Kepner, for all of his awareness of what his command lacks, professes not to be so gloomy. "If the enemy invades, we'll hand him quite a jolt," he says laconically...