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...scorers, with 79, were Bill Rickenbacker, the home team's number three man, and LeBel, Bowdoin's top-ranker and Maine Amateur Open Champ...
...MacArthur; in Austria, the Fifth Army's old boss, General Mark Clark (soon to be replaced by Lieut. General Geoffrey Keyes); in Germany, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, now also commander of all U.S. troops in Europe. As contact man with the field, General Marshall had another Army ranker as Assistant Secretary of State for occupied areas: Major General John H. Hilldring, onetime Civil Affairs Division chief in the War Department...
Many a leather-faced wartime ranker figured that it would be more profitable, in the long run, to become an enlisted man again when the shooting was over. Few had to drop as far back as Ralph T. Shannon, who had spent 19 years as an enlisted man when the Army called him to duty as a reserve officer...
...General Dutra was a thorough and frequent revolutionist until he connected with a successful insurrection. The Revolution of 1904 caught him up in its whirl even before he got through his cadet's training; consequently Brazilian officerdom speaks of him as a "Pescoqo de Sola" (Leatherneck)-a ranker. In the 1924 revolution, Dutra again fought the Government unsuccessfully. But he hit the jackpot in 1930 when he helped Vargas' "gauchos" ride into power. Since then he has been a staunch pillar of Brazil's neo-fascist "New State...
...that release of secret material "would cause exceptionally grave damage to the nation," all Secretary Forrestal could do was to buck-pass the report to Admiral Ernest J. King, with the request that he decide whether or not parts of it could be made public. At least one high-ranker sarcastically explained that the "damage to the nation" would be election damage...