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...commuting to Washington for sessions of the Navy General Board. Last year he gathered evidence on the Pearl Harbor disaster for the Secretary of the Navy. A classmate of Admiral Leahy's at Annapolis (1897), a friend of Franklin Roosevelt's, Tommy Hart would be the first top-rank officer of World War II to go to Congress...
...there is much less entertainment these days in a France where only trained polar bears would find trouping comfortable. In addition to a limited, valiant rank-&-file, there are just two top-rank entertainers: Katharine Cornell and Marlene Dietrich. But Cornell, with a production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street (co-starring Brian Aherne), and Dietrich, with a live-wire troupe, are both doing the work...
...shrewd choice to run against the General. Like McNaughton, he was a top-rank soldier. He fought with the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, won the Military Cross and the Air Force Cross. He switched to the R.C.A.F. when it was formed, became an air vice marshal in World War II. Last year, he retired...
Mature Youthfulness. At 46 (on Jan. 24), Hoyt Vandenberg is typical of many top-rank U.S. airmen. He combines the energy of an athlete with mature judgment. He is dead serious and fluent about anything having to do with aviation, reasonably interested in such lesser matters as golf (low 80s), tennis, gin rummy, Scotch highballs and good panatelas. Like most airmen of top rank, he has spent all his Army career learning and unlearning about air operations...
...Josef Scharl, Munich-born refugee artist of top-rank Continental reputation -for a roomful of boldly painted portraits and landscapes...