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Others going or gone: 66-year-old Lieut. General Ben ("Yoo-hoo") Lear, who fought in the Spanish-American war, onetime chief of the Army Ground Forces; Major General Charles P. Gross, director of the Army's complex and titanic transportation during the last three years of the war; Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, famed wartime chief of the Eighth Air Force (see PEOPLE...
...Schmid has a compelling doggedness and honesty. The cast, especially Messrs. Garfield and Clark, put it over with a notable absence of affectation. The picture's single, sustained combat sequence is keenly written and filmed, fiercely exciting, with its shrilling obbligato of the enemy's "Mreen yoo dyee (Marine, you die!) Mreen tonight yoo dyee!" set against the jabbing technical chatter of the frantically overworked machine-gun crew...
...succeeds is solemn, starched, 65-year-old Lieut. General Ben Lear. Before the war Ben Lear was a good training officer, made national headlines by marching the rowdy spirits out of a battalion of trainees who went too far in yoo-hooing at girls on a Memphis golf links-where the General happened to be golfing. Lear's new assignment: Deputy Commander to General Ike Eisenhower...
Seven unhappy shipyard workers huddled on a raft near Portland, Ore., tired, hungry and cold. They were down to two days' chocolate rations. Within yoo-hoo distance floated the Coast Guard, sternly refusing them food, blankets, sympathy...
Clark said he still resented the "yoo-hoo" incident of two years ago, when Lear disciplined the 35th Division's (Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska) Quartermaster regiment. But there was more to the grudge. After the 1941 maneuvers Lear had the thankless job of overhauling his command, and one of the heads to roll was that of 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman of Missouri, cousin of Missouri's junior Senator Harry Truman. Statesman Clark denounced Ben Lear from the Senate floor...