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Died. General Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold, 63, wartime commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces; of a coronary occlusion; in Sonoma, Calif, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...ARNOLD Sonoma, Calif...
...General of the Air Force "Hap" Arnold, grounded at Sonoma, Calif, since his retirement in 1946, made one more break with his past. To the local city fathers he presented his collection of model airplanes (more than 65 exact scale models, covering every phase of aviation history, with wingspreads ranging up to 4 ft ). For one thing, they were cluttering up the house, he explained...
...missed the . . . point most likely to interest TIME'S readers. Four small counties in Northern California-Napa, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Alameda (which includes the Livermore Valley) produce together less than a third of California's annual 140 million gallons. Yet, in the field of table wine, these counties won 19 out of 20 gold and all 23 silver medals...
Some of the most famous had withdrawn into the wings-to let younger men take over, or simply to rest. The A.A.F.'s General of the Army "Hap" Arnold was content to putter around his Sonoma (Calif.) ranch, contribute an occasional folksy column to the local paper. Effervescent Admiral "Bull" Halsey, another five-star officer, was less satisfied. He had hoped for a job in private industry, but the President disliked the idea of his elder military statesmen accepting salaries while drawing full lifetime Government pay. Bull Halsey traveled and made speeches...