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Chairman Summerfield, 53, is a wealthy Flint, Mich. Chevrolet dealer, who entered politics in the early '40s. In 1948 Summerfield led a movement to get the Republican nomination for Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg. This year Summerfield kept his important Michigan delegation on the fence right up to convention time, finally went (35-11) for Ike on the first ballot...
...first time since a sudden and serious operation put him on the sick list last spring, Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg visited his Pentagon office last week. If all goes well, he expects to be back on full-time duty next month or early in September...
Just after his appearance before the Senate appropriations subcommittee to restate the urgent case for air power, 53-year-old Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg was rushed to Doctors Hospital for an emergency "serious abdominal operation." At week's end his condition was reported "satisfactory." Acting Chief of Staff during his convalescence: General Nathan F. Twining...
...well-to-do father was a traction and power company executive. Grew up in Lowell, Mass., where' his family moved when he was seven; made regular winter trips with his family to Florida. Was always a great favorite of his father's brother, the late Arthur Vandenberg, U.S. Senator from Michigan...
...that they would grant the U.S. bomber bases; attended the Quebec, Cairo and Teheran conferences. In 1944, with his second star, became commander of the Ninth Air Force, supported General George Patton in his sweep across France, and helped General Omar Bradley turn the Battle of the Bulge. Vandenberg got his third star in 1945; after the war he changed into civvies to run the Central Intelligence group. He returned to the Air Forces in 1947 as Deputy Commander and Chief of the Air Staff, became (at 48) a full general; was appointed Air Force Chief of Staff...