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...thing my character and I share is my Army serial number and a few facts of early life." Like Reinhart, Berger is Ohio-born, his German-French-Irish father was a business manager of the Cincinnati school system. The 105-lb. sophomore played 15 seconds of varsity football for Lockland High when "we were leading about 40-0." And like Reinhart, Berger served in the Army Medical Corps during the Berlin occupation. The aspiring novelist left his Columbia University master's thesis on George Orwell unfinished to marry Jeanne Redpath. During the four years he labored on his Berlin...
...story kindled a spark of sympathy in Reader Ronald P. Schehr of Lockland, Ohio, self-styled president of the Society for the Preservation of Mett in America. He wrote TIME to ask for Bohling's address. Then Schehr wrote to Bohling: "This letter is the bearer of good tidings for you. On this Saturday, I have arranged to ship you (airmail) 5 Ibs. of Schmidt's famous hickory-smoked Mett sausage (American variety...
...Lockland's resident Army inspection chief, Major Frank La Vista, testified that 400 plane motors were turned down in July on the final test run because of faulty parts. He cited another instance in which three engines, packed for shipping, were found by him to be defective. The company then rechecked 89 other engines packed for shipping, found flaws in a number of them...
...some of the new facts, Curtiss' dapper president, Guy Warner Vaughan, was hard put to find answers. He admitted to the Committee that he had not been aware of many of the faults which the investigators had spaded up at Lockland, that "we weren't doing a job in some respects." He felt the production slump was caused by the reorganization the plant, was undergoing to eliminate the bad spots...
...nervous, intense Senator Harry Truman was far from satisfied. After the hearing he bluntly warned: "The Lockland plant is one of the most perfectly tooled in the country, but it is also one of the worst managed we have found. There must be improvement of management or the Army will take over...