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Mark Wayne Clark, Brehon B. Somer-vell, Joseph W. Stilwell, Joseph T. Mc-Narney, Ira C. Eaker, Carl Spaatz, Millard F. Harmon, Omar Nelson Bradley, Robert L. Eichelberger, George C. Kenney and Jap-imprisoned Jonathan M. Wainwright. Also held up were the promotions of two major generals: Thomas T. Handy and Walter B. Smith...
...cheap Greenwich Village rented room to the ownership of Devonshire House, a cosmetic corporation whose function is thinking up things that women didn't know they desperately needed. Devonshire House has branches in 13 cities. Devon has her claws in several men. Man No. 1 is Tim Wainwright, Devon's husband, Devonshire House's chief concocter of the high-priced goos that pay for the Wainwrights' East River house. Tim is an Iowa farm boy not only in build but at heart. He has a mission: to do plasma research against the day when...
...early months of the war Jap forces captured 18 U.S. general officers (Lieut. General Jonathan Wainwright, five major generals, twelve brigadiers) but almost nothing is known of their treatment and pay. Neutral observers who have seen prison camps in Japan and occupied China have reported that food was skimpy and not too good, that some recreation and self-government were permitted, that general housing and sanitary facilities were tolerable but far below the standards maintained for prisoners in Germany and Italy...
Japan announced that it would abide by the Geneva Convention (which it never signed) but so far has refused to permit representatives of the Swiss Government or Red Cross to visit the camp on Formosa where General Wainwright and many other Americans are interned. Unless the Japs decide to loosen up, the Army presumably will not learn until after the war how many (if any) yen and sen "Skinny" Wainwright and his comrades are getting...
...Through the International Red Cross, the War Department last week received official word that Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright, Commander of Corregidor, is imprisoned on Formosa with twelve other U.S. generals: Major Generals Edward King Jr., George F. Moore, George M. Parker Jr., Brigadier Generals Lewis C. Beebe, Clifford Bluemel, William E. Brougher, Charles C. Drake, Arnold J. Funk, Maxon S. Lough, Allan C. McBride, Clinton A. Pierce, James R. N. Weaver...