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Cunningham, Cunningham, Coningham & Co. If the plan eventually succeeded, it would be thanks to three field commanders whose names were, symbolically enough in a campaign demanding the utmost in teamwork, all pronounced the same. Every ranker knew a little about the mononymic three...
...spite of a flat warning that their showing in battle would determine whether they would be sent home or kept in uniform, many a ranker, many a subaltern flubbed his battle shots. Through the maneuver area ran the rumor that when next week's battle was over the cleanout of substandard officers would be terrific-perhaps as high...
McNeill, who has won not a single tournament this year, has had a wretched season-about the worst for a No. 1 ranker since John Hope Doeg's memorable fadeout ten years ago. His game is more effective on grass than on clay, and he has been playing on clay. But his shots had been going badly and his confidence was shaken. He had no alibi last week. Parker, onetime protege of Coach Mercer Beasley, who comes up every year with a "remodeled" forehand, had an alibi. He likes clay better than turf; his mechanical style thrives...
...110th, like the rest of the soldiers, know Ben Lear (in uniform). They know him as a ranker who lives commendably close to his troops, a rugged soldier despite his 62 years, a great believer in spit-and-polish. They know and generally approve his dislike of sloppy soldiers, his decisive action (TIME, June 23) to clear his Second Army of incompetent officers so that its outfits can grow into first-class fighting units. They know him, too, as a commander too much preoccupied with small details...
...coordinated Nazi assaults on Poland, Norway, the Low Countries, France. Nerve-centre of the U. S. Army is its General Staff, organized in its present form in 1903 (along plans already in use in the German Army) and first war-tried in 1917. The Chief of Staff is top ranker of the Army in peacetime but likely to be topped in war (as he was in 1917-18) by the field commander of the armies. Function of the Chief of Staff: under the Secretary of War to plan, develop and execute the Army's program for national defense...