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...name among the postwar young marrieds. The cult of the lowest common denominator had found its high priest in Ollie Treyz, and with an almost evangelical zeal he went on to schedule such landmarks of mediocrity as Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside 6, The Roaring '20$, The Rifleman, The New Breed, Straightaway, My Three Sons, The Hathaways, Follow the Sun, Lawman, Adventures in Paradise and Bus Stop...
Divorced. Chuck (The Rifleman) Connors, 40, onetime Chicago Cubs first baseman who found his real niche as a fatherly good guy on TV westerns; by Elizabeth Riddell Connors, 34, who charged that "all the adulation was what he needed more than us''; after 14 years of marriage, four children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Los Angeles...
...dependent upon the Air Force for transportation to the fighting front and close tactical support when it got there. But the Army and the Air Force all too often failed to work well together; air-ground teamwork sagged badly, despite the bloody lesson of World War II that the rifleman needed help from the fighter-bomber. Unable to count on TAC airlift for practice jumps, paratroop commanders talked wryly of chartering their own transports...
...Proud Rifleman. Doing it was no accident. As a precocious undergraduate at Harvard, Mailer was making his plans, and when the Army drafted him, early in 1944, his only concern was where he would be sent ("I worried whether a great war novel would be written about Europe or the Pacific"). After serving in various rear-echelon jobs and, briefly and proudly, as an infantry rifleman on Leyte and Luzon, he returned to the U.S., wrote The Naked and the Dead in 15 methodical months-exactly according to plan...
Safe, Cubular Things. Manhattan-born Lundy won his rebel's spurs honorably. An automatic-rifleman with Patton's Third Army, he was one of 16 out of a battalion of 360 to survive, ended up for eight months in an Army hospital with his left arm nearly shot off by a German tank. At Harvard's Graduate School of Design, after the war, studying with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Lundy began as the wildman of the class: "Everything came out that had been bottled up during the war," he explains. "I gave it the works...