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...Said "Whitey" McNair: "It takes the man with the rifle, the bayonet and the grenade, dragging his weary feet after him ... to get in there with guts and brains. He has to put the finishing touches, the copper-riveted handiwork, on the craftsmanship of the air force, the artillery and the tank corps...
Mark Clark had learned to train men in the U.S., where he had been Lieut. General Lesley ("Whitey") McNair's Ground Force Commander's Chief of Staff, and in Britain, where he had been General Eisenhower's right hand. In North Africa his job was to build up forces for the attack on Italy. He and his staff, headed by small, fair-haired, mathematically minded Chief of Staff Alfred Maximilian (Continued...
...ball game between Harvard and Williams and Co. was arranged yesterday morning by Floyd Stahl and "Whitey" Fuller, former Dartmouth press agent who handles publicity for the Amherst station. The naval trainees have all been graduated from the Amherst school, but they are now marking time before reporting for further study to Chapel Hill, N. C. The boys, who haven't played any formal games this year, asked for a contest before going South, and the Harvard battle was put through...
...Whitey" Myors can blame Princeton if he doesn't take the individual title this year. The agile Dartmouth forward has scored as many as 22 points in a single league game but has been held to a total of nine in his two contests with the Orange and Black. The seven he could count after last week's victory left him in third place with 124 and, like Palmer, a pair of games...
...Whitey" was his deputy commander, Brigadier General Ennis C. Whitehead. "Em" was the Japanese concentration at Rabaul. Rabaul Peninsula lies at the northern tip of New Britain, 480 air miles from Moresby. It looks not unlike the cocked hammer of a pistol, and like a pistol the Japanese have pointed it at the Allies in the Southwest Pacific. Kenney's planes had hit it before, but not in the strength he wanted. Now Whitehead had met him at the airdrome with the news that his strength was mustered: two squadrons of Flying Fortresses, one of B-24 Liberators...