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...Lear's duty has been to transform hundreds of thousands of young civilians into soldiers. Last week, flat-bellied and fit but pushing 64, Disciplinarian Lear announced that he would retire next month as a field officer. (His probable assignment: a desk job on onetime Chief of Staff Malin Craig's general promotion board...
...Latitude Zero than Ted Sherdeman. During rehearsals, which are gagged up to the limit by the cast, he sits amiably giggling at his delirious brain child. He is fond of such tricks as introducing a kind of Latin double-talk for his eerier characters. Sample: Fora consumatio est ramus malin rite confedo saluero. The show was put on a coast-to-coast hookup after 17 weeks on a local circuit, and has a large and loyal following in the Pacific area...
...missed) a chance to begin amassing a fleet of long-range, high-load bombers in 1938. Boeing's famous four-engined Flying Fortress had been tested and proved, the company was anxious to go into real production. Louis A. Johnson, then Assistant Secretary of War, and General Malin Craig, then Chief of Staff, decided instead to concentrate on cheaper, lighter, shorter-range bombers and pursuit ships. Their reasons seemed good at the time: limited funds then available would obviously buy more of the cheaper planes; the British had advised against long-range aircraft...
...flotilla were three cruisers, Georges Leygues, Montcalm, Gloire, and three big destroyers, Le Fantasque, L'Audacieux, Le Malin. They had been anchored at Toulon until last week, along with other survivors of the Battle of Oran Bay. Under terms of the armistice between Germany and France, they had supposedly been disarmed and laid up for the duration of the war. What, then, were they doing...
...Pelot Summerall fixed on 2,000,000 as the proper number for a wartime U. S. Army. His successor, General Douglas MacArthur, in 1931, quoting Washington's advice, upped the figure to 4,000,000, but talked unofficially of up to 10,000,000. When Chief of Staff Malin Craig (1935-39) took over, he decided the MacArthur conception was unpractically high...