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...Haven's executive committee, also sat on the boards of other companies where his father was active. Buck Dumaine intends to run the road the way his father did, with one change. Says he: "I am young enough and can smile enough to do things a little smoother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Legman Up | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...draft was also running smoother. Army enlistments in January and February had more than doubled, and casualties in Korea had been lower than expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Twice as Big | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...varsity quintet won its first Eastern Intercollegiate League contest last night at the Blockhouse, as it beat Dartmouth, 68, to 52. Won easily with an attack that was both faster and smoother than the Indians', the victory broke the team's four game losing streak...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Quintet Fades Green, 67-52 | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

...were surprisingly few. Only 17 marines had been wounded in the attack, none of them fatally. The assault had succeeded so well for two reasons. It had been made where the North Koreans had not suspected we would hit in force. And the superb sea-air-land teamwork, far smoother than any I had seen in World War II Pacific campaigns, had never given the enemy a chance either to dig in his troops adequately or to bring up reinforcements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: The Proposition Was Simple | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...Montgomery, one of the Air Force's rising young (38) one-stars, moved into SAC's new headquarters at Offutt. For his deputy commander LeMay picked handsome, high-polished Thomas Sarsfield Power, 45, a bold, skillful pilot and something the Old Man is not: a diplomat and smoother-over. LeMay's chief of staff, tall, soft-spoken Major General August Walter Kissner, 44, is two other things LeMay is not: a West Pointer and a man who can do paper work and like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: MAN IN THE FIRST PLANE | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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