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...limit. Along with his staff, Tunner moved into a stucco and plywood duplex house on the air base. In the evenings he brought work home and labored far into the night, frequently calling staff members in for consultation or for rawhiding rebuke. Ruefully, the staff christened their quarters "Soreprat-by-the-sea." Said one staff officer last week: "There are just two things we talk about around here-girls and tin birds. And the general sees to it that it's mostly just tin birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: The Moving Man | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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