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...military biographer, Captain Harry Butcher, says that it was a byword among American officers that 'Eisenhower is the best general the British have.' Eisenhower got this reputation by acceding to a British war plan calculated to allow the British commander, Field Marshal Montgomery, to achieve all of the decisive breakthroughs ... It was he who called off General Bradley's victorious armies when they were across the Elbe, thus reserving for Russia the enormous political advantage of capturing Berlin . . . Eisenhower it was, also, who turned General Patton from his unchecked advance upon Prague and let the capital...
...practical jokes. Their stories, perhaps individually suspect, have when taken together a great deal of consistency. His first wife was dead. According to one story, she was killed in a plane crash which Vasily survived. At Dallgow he lived with Lelya Timoshenko, 21-year-old daughter of the Soviet marshal. On nights when Vasily's chauffeur brought in a batch of girls, Koshechka ("Little kitten," as Lelya was called) was escorted to their huge bedroom, where a picture of father Stalin looked sternly down from the wall. The master's German shepherd, Jack, guarded her door until morning...
...March 3, 1946, Russian papers carried the news of Vasily's promotion to major general. Red army men saw five-star Marshal Zhukov pop to quivering attention before one-star General Stalin. For beating up a veteran flyer, Vasily was broken back to colonel, but soon had his star back. The phone buzzed incessantly between father & son. In 1947, Vasily was recalled to Moscow. In 1948 he led his first Aviation Day air parade. In 1949, word came that he was commanding general of the jet fighters charged with protecting the Moscow district...
...force chief, Alexander Novikov, was fired and jailed. Just about that time, Russia turned more attention to heavy bombers, even separated its air force from ground command (it has since been returned to army control). The new air boss was a shining party light, 46-year-old Marshal Konstantin Vershinin, Hero of the Soviet Union, and one of the top World War II commanders. His orders were to get going on jets. Russia's designers had proved that they could build conventional planes; now with German help they proved that they could build first-rate jets...
...pressed debtor, Cleveland's Otis & Co. last week moved with rare speed to stay ahead of the bill collector. It closed down its offices in Buffalo and Manhattan, hustled out chairs and desks in Manhattan just one jump ahead of a U.S. marshal, acting for Kaiser-Frazer Corp. Ever since K-F won a $3,120,743 judgment against Otis for welshing on a $10 million stock deal, K-F and the Securities & Exchange Commission have been hot on Otis' trail. Last week, after Otis informed SEC that it did not have enough capital on hand...