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...serious, studious youth, young Alfred got more pleasure out of telling other children how to play than playing himself...
...weeks, under able, studious Chairman Clifton Woodrum, the special committee had pondered the whole idea. Their object was not to write a law but to study "the field of policy." For two weeks members had listened to more than 100 witnesses; hearings filled over 600 pages. Among the witnesses: General of the Army George Marshall, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, B. F. McLaurin of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Mrs. Charles D. Rockel, chairman of the international relations committee of the Royersford (Pa.) Woman's Club...
Missing. Lieut. General Millard Fillmore ("Miff") Harmon, 57, studious, unstarched commander of Army Air Forces, Pacific; in a converted Liberator bomber; en route from a forward Pacific base to Hawaii. His ability and knack at coordinating Army, Navy and Marine forces prompted Admiral Halsey to call him "Rock of Gibraltar." Successor: his deputy, rugged Major General Willis Henry Hale...
...March 26, 1850, the third son of a Baptist minister in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He was descended from a distinguished line of New England pirates and preachers. His father was "so fat he could not lean over"; his mother was "a piece of frail Dresden china." Edward, slight, studious, with keen, greyish eyes and a musical voice, failed his physical examination for West Point. He studied briefly in Germany and at Union College, read law by himself and set up as a lawyer. In two years he had one case. At 21 he got a job writing editorials...
...hard man to impress. In 1929 (when the Army was at one of its lowest points in men and money) George Marshall was a lieutenant colonel, the assistant commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Two majors impressed him there: plain, lanky Omar Bradley and ramrod-straight, studious Courtney Hodges. The three...