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...Colorado College reached for a West Pointer [TIME, Dec. 22] in hiring Major General W. H. Gill (ret.), it was fortunate in not getting what it reached for. Like General Marshall, Gill is a product of Virginia Military Institute, and like him is more a man and less a martinet than the products of the U.S.M.A...
Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee (Ret.), U.S. Army commander in Italy who was acquitted last October (after noisy accusations in the press) of abusing his authority, took a job as general secretary of the Episcopal Brotherhood of St. Andrew...
Field Marshall Karl von Rundstedt (ret., by request), who once commanded German forces on the Western front (and began the Battle of the Bulge), got a ten-day Christmas leave from a P.W. camp in Wales to visit his ailing son back home...
Married. Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret.), 57, granite-faced old China hand; and Anna Chan, 24, Shanghai newspaperwoman, daughter of a onetime Chinese consul in San Francisco; in Shanghai. Ex-Flying Tiger Boss Chennault, who stayed in China to run the Fourteenth Air Force after the U.S. got into the fight (and now runs a China airline carrying relief supplies), was divorced 17 months ago by his first wife, who had borne him eight children...
Died. Lieut. Commander Allan Ramsey Wurtele (rhymes with "fur tell"). U.S.N. (ret.), 54, pioneer in mechanized cane-farming; of a heart ailment; in Mix, La. Wurtele invented a mechanical cane-harvester, and developed a process for converting sugar into synthetic rubber, attracted wider attention in 1939 when he proposed a plan to appease Hitler by buying him Danzig and the Polish Corridor for $70 million (Wurtele offered...