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...Heavy-set (5 ft. 11 in.. 190 Ibs.). "Lem" Lemnitzer. 59, son of a Pennsylvania shoemaker, has spent his 39 years since West Point getting jobs done and going away before anybody noticed he was there. Never the dramatic sort to pack pistols like Patton or a hand grenade like Ridgway, he was the workhorse officer who planned Allied landings in North Africa in 1942, negotiated the German surrender in Italy in 1945, organized Defense Department's NATO rearmament program (1948-50), commanded U.N. forces in the Far East (1955-57), was marked for the top job years...
Subs & Surrenders. As a Torch planner, "General Lem" joined the secret party, led by General Mark Clark, that slipped into North Africa by submarine in 1942, to find French commanders who would defy Vichy and support the forth coming invasion.* Like Clark (who lost his pants while scurrying back to the waiting submarine), Lemnitzer had some close calls: he had to hide in a wine cellar when nosy Vichy French gendarmes came to investigate curious circumstances at the clandestine meeting place; later, en route to Torch headquarters in Gibraltar, his B-17 was attacked by three Nazi JU-88s, which...
Your recent snide remarks about Ike's "vacations" are in poor taste. As Uncle Lem over in Vermont said: "When I go to Florida, I don't take the cows with me, and I can forget all about the chores. That feller in Washington can't seem to ever be able to do likewise...
...lets on that he graduated from Oxford only by an "arrangement" with the regius professor of English literature), Graves suggests that even as a schoolboy he could not resist the temptation to make light of learning. He declined the name of Mr. Lees, the Latin master, as "Lees, Lees, Lem...
Turkey (pop. 24,110,000). Hates and fears Russia, whether Russia is Communist or not. A secularized Mos lem state, very friendly to the U.S., Turkey is the eastern anchor of NATO. Its 500,000-man army is the area's best. Sides with Britain over Cyprus. Turks dislike Nasser, chiefly because he opened the door to the Russians in the Middle East...