Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldier's talents for open warfare, but like few he has a diplomat's deft touch for the quiet, unsung victory. Last week President Eisenhower, no mean soldier-diplomat himself, picked General Lemnitzer as the next Army Chief of Staff, to succeed retiring General Maxwell Taylor, 57, next July 1. Lemnitzer was the only new man on the President's list of appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Air Force's General Nathan Farragut Twining, 61, was reappointed chairman; Chief of Naval...
...commander of the 11th Airborne Division (1950), he qualified after a week as a rated parachutist (five jumps) at 51. In Korea, Lemnitzer commanded the Seventh Infantry Division, won the Silver Star for gallantry in action, in 1955 took over full command of the United Nations Forces, succeeding Max Taylor, who had gone on to be the Army's Chief of Staff...
Shirtsleeved Taylor. Max Taylor's vice chief of staff since 1957, Lemnitzer has been philosophically in tune with Taylor, though opposite in personality; he is a messy-desk man and a shirtsleeve worker. But his achievements in that post are monuments to the Army's perseverance in the age of missiles and space. Lemnitzer's chief political victory: staving off an attempt, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to take away the Army's top missileers-Werner von Braun and associates...
...Conrad Hilton was Cineminx Eva Gabor, sister of Hilton's ex-wife Zsa Zsa, whose former husband, Cinemenace George Sanders, had recently moved out with his new bride Benita Hume, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman. Eva, it so happens, is a former potential step-aunt of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor (through Liz's first marriage to Hilton's playboy son Nicky), thus also ex-step-great-aunt, two marriages removed, of another guest in the Casa, fledgling Cinemogul Mike Todd Jr., son of Liz's third husband and, naturally, Hilton's ex-step-grandson...
...Chairman Henry C. Alexander; National Cash Register Chairman Stanley C. Allyn; Bechtel Corp. President S. D. Bechtel; Standard Oil of Calif. Chairman R. G. Follis; Standard Oil (N.J.) Chairman Eugene Holman; General Electric Finance Committee Chairman Philip D. Reed; CBS President Frank Stanton; International Packers Ltd. Chairman A. Thomas Taylor...