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...different. Last week an Army promotion list raised three aviators to three-star rank, making a total of ten Army airmen with the rank of lieutenant general. The three new ones: tall, handsome, 46-year-old Hoyt S. Vandenberg, boss of the Ninth Air Force on the Continent, and nephew of Michigan's Senator; bald-headed John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 53, boss of the Twelfth Air Force in Italy (and no kin to the late, famed G.O.P. Speaker); and articulate, blue-eyed, fast-talking Harold Lee ("Bombardment") George, 51, who runs the world's biggest airline...
...Take away those pillows; I shall need them no more," said Dodgson on his deathbed. "Wonderland at last!" said the nephew who buried...
...admitted that they did not know much about the plan. But they gave international cooperation a thumping (18-to-1) yea. Their sons were fighting all over the world, and they were for anything that gave hope of keeping it from happening again. As one townsman, who has a nephew in China, grandsons in North Africa and New Guinea, put it: "We're not so narrow any more. We've changed our minds about a lot of things since the war started...
...Gerald David Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), 20, nephew of Britain's George VI, was praised by his regimental sergeant major as a democratic, model soldier. There was only one complaint against Private Lascelles: his superiors could not persuade him to make the usual $4-a-week allotment to his mother, the Princess Royal...
Vandenberg (a nephew of Michigan's U.S. Senator) gets along with his crewmen and enlistees by talking air-slanguage with the slangiest of them,* playing volleyball and ping-pong with them, and usually beating them. A dashing figure in impeccable uniform, cap set at a rakish angle, he seems to be always in action. He usually flies his own Thunderbolt in hops to staff headquarters. Back at his own post, he wants a lot of his own staff around in the evening, insists on singing with a quartet although he cannot carry a tune...