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Another airman was a less frequent visitor: dour, taciturn, officially ruthless Lieut. General Joseph McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, whose rise was in some ways symbolic of the Air Forces' new prestige in the Army. McNarney has a job of the first importance which might have gone to a groundsman. As General Marshall's trusted deputy, he alone is empowered to act in the name of the Chief on many matters which otherwise would sponge up General Marshall's crowded hours...
Drinking Team. Squat, ugly Itagaki and lean, handsome General Nishio made a perfect army team. They drank great quantities of sake together, Itagaki growing garrulous and gay, Nishio sour and taciturn on the gently powerful wine. They shared two of the controlling passions of the Japanese army: a hatred of Communists and a companion hatred of Japan's great capitalist families (the Mitsuis, Iwasakis, Sumitomos and Yasudas) on the twin grounds that their abuses fostered Communism and that they disputed the mastery of Japan with the army. When others laid an indiscreetly heavy hand upon the princes of money...
Also back in Washington last week were two other Congressmen newly returned from wartime service: shrewd, taciturn Francis Eugene Walter of Pennsylvania, after six months of offshore patrol out of Norfolk, Va., and short, blond Warren Grant Magnuson of Washington who served with Admiral Halsey on Pacific task-force expeditions. They will have to stay on land, under a new Presidential order, until Franklin Roosevelt decides they are needed on active duty again. Until then, Representatives Johnson, Walter and Magnuson can tell fellow-Congressmen what modern war is really like...
Leopard By Her Bed. Beryl Markham came to the subtlest and most primal of continents when she was four, to a farm that was painfully hacked out of the dense Kenya forests near Nairobi. Her principal childhood companions were her hard, taciturn, horse-breeding father, some half-naked Negro huntsmen and a ferocious bulldog hybrid named Duller, who somehow survived abduction (from the foot of little Miss Markham's bed) by a leopard, which...
...doctors told Kroener that he had cancer, advised him to go to a hospital for an operation. He refused. He would not leave his terrible charge that long. A month ago, while the circus was playing in New York, the taciturn ex-butcher had to go to the hospital, whether he liked it or not. He was suffering from hemorrhages...