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...good generals obey orders. General MacArthur asked only for time-time to plan the strategy to meet the next expected Jap attack (see p. 20), time to transfer his command to lean, competent Major General Jonathan M. ("Skinny") Wainwright, 58-year-old cavalry officer who knows all the tricks of Bataan defense...
...major generals and 18 brigadier generals since the war started, he has not thought it necessary in several instances to cite the deeds which prompted the promotions, nor has he taken time to reveal his staff's working structure. Departmental sources believe that Major General Jonathan M. ("Skinny") Wainwright, 58-year-old cavalry expert, is Douglas MacArthur's second in command. Horseman Wainwright and Brigadier General Albert N. Jones received Distinguished Service Crosses for "extraordinary heroism in action" during early phases of the Philippine invasion. Douglas MacArthurs Chief of Staff is handsome, young (48) Major General Richard...
...broad, fertile Pampanga plain leading south 120 miles between mountain ranges toward Manila. Long strategists' pick for the deadly thrust, Lingayen was heavily defended. But the Jap moved in, attempting landings on a stretch from Lingayen northward. A heavy U.S. force under Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright was waiting...
...sales letter to a prospect in Petersburg, Va., in which a wainwright offered a two-horse omnibus, with seats for 14 and an advertisement printed on the outside, for $550, with brakes $20 extra...
...GREAT MISTAKE-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Maud Wainwright, money-dripping widow of the Cloisters, is bedeviled by a neighborhood crowd of dastardly ex-husbands and bitchy ex-wives. Plenty of murder...