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...Admiral Hewitt & Co. who have by no means gone unmentioned in TIME (July 26, 1943), rate a 15-gun salute for good work in five tough amphibious operations: the landings in Africa, Sicily, at Salerno, Anzio, Southern France. Possessor of one of the U.S. Navy's most brilliant mathematical minds, Admiral Hewitt is one of the prime organizers of U.S. amphibious warfare...
...adopt a now-accepted plan of remedial reading. He was probably the first U.S. school superintendent to receive an honorary degree (Doctor of Laws) from a college in his own school system (Chicago Teachers College). He has repeatedly been lampooned as a Kelly-machine man, as the proud possessor of an organization of spies who tell tales out of school...
...year-old Army veteran, V.M.I.-man and West Pointer, possessor of the D.S.M., D.S.C., Silver Star and Purple Heart from World War I and one of the service's least reliable tempers, Eisenhower gave command of an army. Some days after the Germans had announced the fact to the world, General Patton was officially unveiled as leader of the victorious Third Army in its dash to the Seine. After that, no one could complain...
Vince Di Maggio (batting average: .264), slick-haired, outfielding elder brother of peacetime Yankee Outfielder Sergeant Joe, vigorously ignored the $4.50-a-day meal ticket allowed to Pittsburgh Pirates on the road. In a single Philadelphia sitting he ate $9.97 worth, charged it to the club. Possessor of a priceless 4-F rating (for stomach ulcers), he dared the Pittsburgh management: "If you think I eat too much, trade...
...spared the barbs of the sophisticates who patronized him, but was confided in, trusted, never helped to great success, never permitted to sink to disaster. Later, when the full quality of Keats's genius began to be known, Severn was recognized as a hero, an authority, and the possessor of Keats's most valuable manuscripts and recollections. One day Severn ran away with the reputedly illegitimate daughter of Lord Montgomerie, married her, lived happily ever after...