Word: mckeogh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks just before Dday, he usually began his day at the stereotyped U.S. military hour of 5 a.m. He lived with his close personal friend and naval aide, Commander Harry Butcher, peacetime CBS vice president, and his orderly, Sergeant "Micky" McKeogh, onetime bellboy at New York's Plaza Hotel, in an unpretentious eight-room cottage near headquarters. One room was full of gymnasium paraphernalia, which the general studiously avoided except upon rare occasions when he took an exasperated belt, in passing, out of the punching...
...Sergeant McKeogh has been with the general since Eisenhower picked him as a driver at the 1941 maneuvers. Commander Butcher's role has puzzled many civilians, although veteran officers understand it well. As a general moves up in the military scale, he becomes surrounded with a loneliness not unlike that which enfolds the master of a ship...
Literally atop this maze, in the hilltop St. George Hotel, Eisenhower spends most of his working days. In off hours, he lives in a pleasant Algiers villa with three companions: his devoted "dog robber" (orderly), Sergeant "Micky" McKeogh; a Scottish terrier named Telek; his principal aide, Navy Commander Harold Butcher, a friend from Washington days who used to be a broadcasting-company executive. Smooth, fast-talking, fast-thinking Harold Butcher is reputed to have much influence with Eisenhower...
Britons, accustomed to self-effacing army batmen, are intrigued by Sergeant Michael James ("Mickey") McKeogh. A onetime bellhop from Manhattan, Mickey is chauffeur, dishwasher, letter writer for Lieut. General Dwight ("Ike") Eisenhower, who was a colonel only 14 months ago. Last week Mickey was asked how he got his successive promotions to staff sergeant. Said Batboy McKeogh: "Simple. Every time I get the General one he gets...
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