Word: planners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college novel) to A New Doctrine for the Americas, went to England in March, spent the three months before D-day diligently acquainting himself with Allied leaders, men and material. He gives full marks to General Eisenhower, but his particular heroes are Lieut. Generals Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, the planner, and Omar Bradley, the U.S.' field commander...
What Manner of Man? Guderian's appointment to replace bumbling, Nazified Colonel General Kurt Zeitzler surprised military observers in the Allied capitals (and perhaps in Germany as well). The choice raised puzzling questions. Why did an Army everywhere in retreat need a tank specialist as its top planner? Was Guderian to be the strong man for the Army, or a figurehead for Hitler himself? Was his main job military (to revise Army strategy) or political (to hold the lid down during a ruthless purge of "unreliable" elements)? Was Guderian himself politically reliable, as far as the Party was concerned...
...Heinz Guderian's career, there were a few clues. At 56, taking over the biggest command of his life, Guderian was judged by his enemies a sound tactician and dynamic leader. His personal courage and tactical aggressiveness were well established. A singleminded, painstaking planner, he was always willing to take a calculated risk. He had won some of Germany's most striking victories in World War II. But he was also a general who had lost his most important battle-at a high-water mark of Nazi conquest...
...York City's famed and fiery Park Commissioner Robert Moses has blown exceedingly hot recently on the subject of foreign-born city planners with notions about the U.S. (TIME, July 24). His salvos have been charged with such powder as: "[the imported planner] is hurting our architecture by advocating a philosophy which doesn't belong here and fundamentally offers nothing more novel than the lally column and the two-by-four timber...
...Stupid Philistines." The city planners' replies were less pungent, but almost as rude. Wrote Manhattan's Carol Aronovici, author of Housing the Masses, and a professional city planner: "Does the Commissioner not recognize the existence of chaotic disorganization in our cities or is it merely that he objects to intelligent, experienced students of cities expressing an opinion in a field in which he is trying to secure full control?" Barbara Lewis of Trenton, N.J. compared Moses to a pulp magazine reader who presumes to attack Shakespeare and Tolstoy. "The genius of Saarinen and Gropius will fortunately long survive...