Word: macarthurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman trying to say [Jan. 20] that President Eisenhower is not doing a good enough job because the unerring Mr. Truman can no longer tell him what to do? Is it not enough to have ruined the brilliant career of General MacArthur...
With some 80 of his World War II comrades in arms gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria, little-faded General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, now board chairman of Sperry Rand Corp., observed his 78th birthday. After the banquet, the assembled brass watched a nostalgic film of the Pacific war, heard an Army-supplied double quartet blend voices in Old Soldiers Never Die. "At my age," allowed the general, "every birthday is a challenge...
...firing of General Douglas MacArthur, who considered himself "the proconsul in Asia": "It's too bad that the general didn't have a good political adviser. If he'd have consulted me about what he ought to do, I would have made it much easier for him, and he'd be a much more popular man than he is today...
...Among other C.N.B. alumni: Walter Howey, model for the managing editor in The Front Page, the play's co-author Charlie MacArthur, and Hildy Johnson, the real-life reporter who was its hero. * No kin to Novelist Francoise Sagan, whose real name is Quoirez...
Part of living with the man is knowing how to approach him: Hagerty remembers that the President once told him: "When I was a young major in the Philippines, I worked for a general [Douglas MacArthur] with strong opinions. But when I felt it was my duty to argue, I never hesitated." Today, when Hagerty feels it his duty to argue, he asks the President: "Do you remember that young major?" Sighs Dwight Eisenhower: "Yeah. What...