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Oldtimers at the Metropolitan Opera knew McNair Ilgenfritz only as the man who regularly rented Box No. 1. Other people recognized him as a retiring little man who wore spats and a bowler set at a rather rakish angle, and spent his life commuting between Paris, Newport and Philadelphia. They also knew that he liked to write music, and that he played the piano at parties and played well...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, and decided to stay on in his roomy old Quarters "I" at Fort Myer, traditional home of the Army's No. I man. General Joe Collins, coming in as Bradley's successor, had to make do in a commodious brick mansion at Fort McNair. When the new Joint Chiefs were appointed last May, Collins saw trouble ahead. If Admiral Arthur Radford, new boss of the JCS. followed Bradley's precedent and moved into Quarters I, Collins reasoned, then General Matthew Ridgway, Collins' own successor, would probably pre-empt the house at Fort...
...Alfred M. Gruenther, 42, was General McNair's left-hand man (young Brigadier General Mark Clark was his right) at the GHQ directors' group at Camp Polk. Gruenther became a lieutenant colonel during the maneuvers . . . Eisenhower says Gruenther is one of the best soldiers he has ever known-and so do dozens of other people. Gruenther is a thin, pale, frank officer who proves to be studious, well-informed and extremely well-liked . . . The knowing element in the Army is betting on the Eisenhower-Gruenther combination to swim to the top quickly...
Stephen V. D. Chandler, Hackensack, N. J.; Phillip J. Erard, Springfield, Mass.; Paul G. Forand, New Bedford, Mass.; John C. Hamel, Parts, France; Jan E. Jertson, Fairhaven, Mass.; Robert T. McConaughy, Sharonville, Ohio; George N. McNair Jr., Farmington, Wash.; Robert Marsotta, Cambridge, Mass.; Walton H. Rawls, Atlanta, Ga.; Lester B. Scherer, Des Moines, Iowa; Harry K. Ziel, McKees Rocks, Pa.; Franklin P. Barker, Dallas, Texas...
...Jertson, Fairhaven, Mass.; Robert T. McConaughy, Sharonville, Ohio; George N. McNair Jr., Farmington, Wash.; Harry K. Ziel, McKees Rocks...