Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Captain Gable returned to the U.S. with 50,000 ft. of film, campaign ribbons, and the Air Medal (for five combat missions). But his anonymity was gone. When the War Department arranged a press conference, stenographers lined Pentagon Building corridors six deep to watch him walk by. They chattered and oh-ah'd: "He's marvelous . . . isn't he smooth...
...last fortnight's issue went too far for Pentagon Building kibitzers. One cartoon showed a two-star general, breakfasting in bed. Another, in which an emaciated corporal pointed at a well-fed Army cook, had the caption: "He still insists he doesn't use saltpeter." The editorial gently poked a particularly sensitive sacred cow, the American Legion (". . . Men . . . joined the Legion to apply pressure to get things done politically...
...area, cook its meals, drive its cars, guard its billets and offices on more than 2,000 pieces of Algiers real estate. Its Signals center handles in 1,000 code messages a day. A newly arrived U.S. officer, previously accustomed to the spaces and complexities of Washington's Pentagon Building, took a preliminary look at A.F.H.Q. and gasped...
Last week General Stratemeyer pinned the D.F.C. and Air Medal on General Bissell. The unbuttoned Jap-killers who had long resented Pentagon polish on active duty grinned. Decorations or no decorations, the "book General" was bound for the home office...
...Pentagon pundits offered explanations: 1) his predecessor, Major General Russell P. ("Scrappy") Hartle (new assignment unannounced), was due for relief from 18 months of duty overseas; 2) Townsend Gerow holds the confidence of Chief of Staff George Marshall, whom he followed by ten years at Virginia Military Institute.* Best guess was that Gerow's reputation earned him a job that may take him to the bridgeheads on Western Europe. He is one of the Army's top infantry tacticians...