Word: norstad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lieut. General Lauris Norstad, 44, Allied Air Commander of SHAPE, admitted to New York Herald Tribune Columnists Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg that he was getting on a bit. Said he: "When I was playing squash every day, not so long ago, I used to think of golf as an old man's game. Well, maybe it is, but now I'm playing golf." However, he said, fishing was still his first love, and for his casting expeditions he had bought a jaunty Tyrol hat, decked out with the traditional chamois brush and silver pins...
Long before Pentagon days, Lieut. Colonel George Marshall so impressed General John Pershing. The Navy's Forrest Sherman was taken under the wing of Admiral Chester Nimitz; Lauris Norstad, now top airman in Europe, was tapped by General Hap Arnold. Lieut. General Al Gruenther, generally regarded as the most impressive briefing officer the Pentagon has produced, was once a comer himself, is now Eisenhower's chief of staff at SHAPE. Recently, Gruenther called for the Army's brightest comer, Brigadier General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 50, to serve as his plans officer. He also got the loan...
...shot. The bullet hit the windshield, and I could not see through it. I drove as fast as possible toward Potsdamer Strasse. Two more bullets hit the bus. One went through the coat of an officer sitting behind me." One of the passengers was 13-year-old Kristin Norstad, daughter of Lieut. General Norstad, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe. She called the incident "the most exciting adventure since Hopalong Cassidy." In all, the police fired 12 to 15 shots...
...Operation Swarmer the Air Force has assembled virtually all the troop-carrier and cargo planes that would be available if the U.S. were attacked this week. Nevertheless, the Air Force's able, 43-year-old Lieut. General Lauris ("Larry") Norstad, in command, has had to tailor his plans to his restricted fleet of aircraft, dropping one regiment at a time on the North Carolina countryside...
...taken the Army and Air Force nearly four months to set up Swarmer. The U.S. has no war headquarters to direct such mock warfare, much less run a real war. Norstad had to borrow his headquarters supply command from the New York Port of Embarkation...