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...Alfred M. Gruenther, 42, was General McNair's left-hand man (young Brigadier General Mark Clark was his right) at the GHQ directors' group at Camp Polk. Gruenther became a lieutenant colonel during the maneuvers . . . Eisenhower says Gruenther is one of the best soldiers he has ever known-and so do dozens of other people. Gruenther is a thin, pale, frank officer who proves to be studious, well-informed and extremely well-liked . . . The knowing element in the Army is betting on the Eisenhower-Gruenther combination to swim to the top quickly...
...part of the well platform a mass of wreckage. The wells' damaged "Christmas trees" (i.e., cluster of valves topping the well pipe) kept the flames close to the platform, making the area too hot to approach. Kinley borrowed a four-man Army team from Louisiana's Camp Polk, tried to shoot off the trees with 75-mm. recoilless rifles. The tree of one well was shot off. Kinley got Pure Oil's crews to weld together a 90-ft. boom of pipe tipped with a big loop and cooled by hundreds of gallons of water pumped through...
...grey stone, round-arched National Presbyterian Church at Connecticut and N Street, eight blocks north of the White House. Formerly known as the Church of the Covenant, it is considered one of Washington's more fashionable places of worship, whose pewholders over the years included Presidents Jackson, Pierce, Polk, Grant, Cleveland and Buchanan. Baptist Harry Truman worshiped in its "President's pew" on each opening of Congress. Its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, who served as chaplain to the XXI Corps during World War II and is a friend of Ike's, calls...
...POLK San Antonio, Texas...
...volume of Shakespeare's works and a book on his hobby, harmony and composition, in addition to the Bible that Briggs brought for him. Ironically, Briggs also brought the first word to Oatis that the Overseas Press Club in the U.S. had awarded him the George Polk Memorial Award for "courage, integrity and enterprise"-for the same kind of reporting that the Reds had called "spying." The State Department cautiously pointed out that the interview should not be construed as indicating that Oatis was any nearer to regaining his freedom than before...