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Back in Washington last week after a tour of Korea, Air Force Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatrick announced that after two years of war the Far East Air Forces were in the best shape ever. In Korea, Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins promised that more and heavier air blows would rain on North Korea "if they [the Communists] insist on prolonging the war." Admiral William Fechteler, Chief of Naval Operations who was also in the Pacific, spoke up for the Navy. Fechteler said that two new carrier jets, able to cope with the enemy...
...four guys are selling "Lawton's card," "Jack's card," "Gilroy's Card." "Say, Mac want a winner? We had five Go home a winner...
Other record-setters at Des Moines: ¶ The University of Kansas' Bob de Vinney, the 440-yd. hurdles in 52.4 sec. ¶ The University of Illinois' Dick Reynolds, Lawton Lamb, Stacey Siders and Henry Cryer, the two-mile relay...
Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins hustled the design to a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The J.C.S. ran it through the wringer of the interservice Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, headed by able General John E. Hull. The W.S.E.G. approved. The Navy, wise to the ways of big guns, pitched in to help with the construction of the first shell and first gun. The first test (made without an atomic charge in the shell) was a shattering failure, but after subsequent tests were successful, Collins gave the order for large-scale production...