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...need a caddy?" The man on the tee handed his driver to a caddy, jumped a three-foot fence, stalked to the convoy. A command car in the column jerked to a stop, and its officers piled out to face an Awful Fact. The golfer was Lieut. General Ben Lear, commander of the Second Army, director of the maneuvers from which the 110th had just emerged...
...Lear was a first sergeant before he was an officer, and what he had to tell the 110th's officers sizzled with first sergeant's wrath. When all the burning words had been said, Ben Lear told the convoy to move on, that it would hear from him after it got back to its home station at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, 145 miles away...
...close of the Second Army's maneuvers in Tennessee (TIME, June 23, et seq.), Lieut. General Ben Lear's harshest words were aimed at "the chain of command"-meaning the officers through whom orders are transmitted from the C.O. to every buck private in the field. Said...
...meandering Duck River, where rolling meadows and woods break sharply into commanding hills, 55,000 U.S. fighting men last week worked at war. A few weeks before, frank General George Marshall had said that the U.S. Army was still in the high-school stage. In Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army, three divisions were far enough along in their courses to be sent to the Tennessee laboratory to show what they had learned, and study further in the hard school of field maneuver...
...other newly-elected officers include Royal G. Whiting, Jr. '42, vice-president; Walter J. Lear '43, secretary; and Roger G. Fisher '43, treasurer...