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Personal Life. Businesslike and notably hardworking, he runs Morocco's affairs with a good executive's cool hand and hot impatience with doubletalk ("You say what you have to say in five minutes." explains one of his ministers. "He asks you a few questions-right to the point-and that's that"). Though he is a tireless administrator, he enjoys his time off: a dash into the country in a Cadillac or Mercedes or Rolls, an energetic game of boules (lawn bowling) with a few French servants and friends, a simple meal (French cuisine) followed...
Prowess with Drags. Radford's class at Annapolis-1916-produced more carrier admirals in World War II than any other. They, and others of their times, were a group of mavericks, individualists and innovators. A few of them tried for West Point-and took Annapolis because appointments there were easier to get from Congressmen. Radford (born in Chicago in 1896) was one of these. It was a matter of considerable surprise to Radford's father-a Canadian-born civil engineer who had moved on from Chicago to Grinnell, Iowa-when young Arthur told him, one fine day, that...
...duty as an infantry second lieutenant Davis was off to Hollywood to make a movie with Blanchard for $50,000 each. They would play their last game together at Manhattan's Polo Grounds in September, with the College All-Stars against New York's professional Giants. West Point-and the U.S. at large-would not soon forget Army's invincible eleven, unbeaten in three years, and Blanchard and Davis, who made...
...Field Artillery School Commandant. Seven months in wartime Washington had taught him that orders are not only to be obeyed but anticipated. Long before the War Department fully realized what time fire could do, Jess Balmer was calling for its use on a huge scale. North Africa proved his point-and led ground forces to multiply orders for time shells. Long before the War Department had recognized the G.F.T., Sill was turning out homemade ones, paper strips mounted on beaverboard. Young officers took them to Guadalcanal and Tunisia, Attu and Sicily. Last month Balmer's command won official commendation...
...Modernists, proposed to amend the resolution by striking out the insistence on the creed, leaving the statement that the New Testament is the basis of the Baptist faith. The cohorts were summoned to vote. The Modernists polled 742 to the Fundamentalists 574. So the resolution was shorn of its point-and adopted...