Word: spaatz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home Family. Spaatz's strong feeling for the family relationship in his official life is a reflection of his happy and notably informal family life at home. He is devoted as only an inarticulate, hard-shelled Pennsylvania Dutchman could be to his spritely family of women, fondly known as the "harem." Tooey may be tough on the troops, but with his three daughters he is "weak in the head"-this from no less an authority than his wife, dark-haired, good-looking Ruth Harrison Spaatz...
...Spaatz has not yet seen the youngest member of the harem-his five-month-old, redheaded granddaughter-but he was "pleased sick" over the addition, especially because it had turned out to be a girl. His eldest daughter, Katherine ("Tatty"), is in England with a Red Cross club-mobile crew; the rest of the family is living in the big old Spaatz home in Alexandria, Va., near Washington...
Letters from Tatty and Sally Bagby helped Mrs. Spaatz to fill in the picture of life in England which grew grimmer as the greatest test of the war approached. Tooey temporarily forsook the guitar (on which he is a fair hand) and, with a gesture to the fates worthy of an old ballplayer, he has refused to wear any headgear save a battered, villainous cap of the smartly sloppy Air Forces type...
...occasional loyalty to such mild holdings as two jacks or three treys, and his reformist zeal for keeping all the other players honest, can cost him dear when such scientific pokerists as Ira Eaker are present. Says Mrs. Spaatz, philosophically: "That's where the flying pay goes. It's an old Air Force custom. They all have that feeling: 'What the hell, let's take a chance...
...ultimate outcome of the ETO poker game will largely determine the size of the sailboat Spaatz intends to moor in the Potomac after the war. After 18 months he is about even, but all the players agree he is sure to wind up either a big winner or big loser. Aside from the sailboat, Tooey has another special dream of heaven-to come home to Alexandria in the evening and sit down on the floor of the living room. Then Tatty will mix him a pale highball. His second daughter Becky (wife of an air force lieutenant and mother...