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Pale and exhausted, the Detroit Symphony's Conductor Karl Krueger returned to the U.S. last week. From three months of conducting in Europe he brought back two prizes that made his trip worthwhile...
...shouldn't tax his muddled brain too much to recall that a few million Americans, many of German descent and including such notables as Eisenhower and Spaatz, saved the British Isles from invasion, and to realize that many others of German descent-Nimitz, Wedemeyer, Mitscher, Eichelberger and Krueger, to name a few-are helping to save the Empire...
...Sixth Army's General Walter Krueger, victor of New Guinea and Luzon, commented caustically: "In going to 85 points they took out my first team. If they go to 80 they will take out my second team. I can't land in Japan with a third team...
Many of the portraits you will see were lent by the newsmakers they depict - for the originals of TIME covers have gone (among many others) to General Hodges and Madame Soong, General Krueger and Senator Vandenberg, Mrs. Jimmy Doolittle and the mother of General Mark Clark. TIME'S painting of General Patton is framed at his Massachusetts home "Green Meadow" - General Somervell's portrait is in his office at the Pentagon Building - and our painting of General "Tooey" Spaatz hangs on the wall of his wife's home in Washington ("I have never seen a picture...
Then MacArthur made Luzon the exclusive business of General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army and sent battle-tried Ike Eichelberger to clean up the rest of the Philippines to the south. How well Team No. 2 had done its job was seen last week as the 24th and 31st Divisions were liquidating isolated pockets of enemy resistance on Mindanao-last of several tough nuts cracked by the Eighth Army...