Word: schrievers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tomorrow's Men. As the man who leads the U.S. race to beat the Russians to a workable ICBM, and who sparks the U.S. surge toward space, General Schriever has what has been called "the most important job in the country." But the measure of the coming missile age is that today's dedicated, visionary missilemen are no longer considered unique or eccentric or extreme...
...missilemen contemplate Ben Schriever, a tomorrow's man who often runs his command post in a grey flannel suit or tweed sports coat and slacks, who decorates his command post with an impressionistic oil painting of the U.S.'s first liquid-fuel rocket superimposed upon a plumed Chinese war rocket supposedly used by the Kin Tartars at the seige of Kaifeng (12321,* they recognize him as tomorrow's man. "Discerning, thinking leader . . . outstanding and extremely tenacious manager ... he has a big project concept" they say, adding that they "have great regard for his motivations." For Ben Schriever...
Believe It or Not. Born in Bremen, Germany just 46 years ago, Ben Schriever came to the U.S. at the age of six, bringing with him a severe earache ("The ocean, I remember, was very rough coming over"), the memory of Zeppelins passing thunderously at night above his family's apartment in Bremerhaven, and a fluency only in his native tongue. It was 1917, and the U.S. had interned his father Adolf, an engineer for the North German Lloyd line; Engineer Schriever sent for his wife and sons Bernard and Gerhard, and they soon moved to the German-American...
Several times the Schrievers moved, eking out a meager living, until in 1923 Mrs. Schriever got a job as housekeeper to a wealthy San Antonian who set the Schriever family up on a bit of his property beside the twelfth green of the Brackenridge Park golf course. Here the family developed a profitable sideline by opening a refreshment stand, selling home-cured ham sandwiches, Bavarian cheeses and soft drinks to the passing golfers. Ben hurled himself at his schoolwork, was a bear at mathematics, graduated from high school at 16 in the National Honor Society. In his spare time...
During the Air Corps' lean years, Reserve Officer Schriever built up a many-sided experience both on active and inactive duty. He flew lumbering B-3 Keystone bombers, ferried the mails, made a parachute jump (with proper military permission) just for the experience, worked as a copilot for Northwest Airlines on the Seattle-Billings run, served as aide in Panama to Brigadier General George H. Brett, and courted and won the general's 20-year-old blonde daughter Dora. On inactive duty one year, Ben ran a CCC camp of 200 truculent boys near Lordsburg...