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White-haired, dignified Lieut. General Barton Kyll Yount (rhymes with bunt) was in effect president of the nation's largest technical school in World War II. As chief of the Army Air Forces Training Command, he bossed the training of two million flyers and technicians on 453 campuses. In June, at 62, after 43 years in the Army, Barton Yount retired...
Last week he was back at one of his old campuses, Thunderbird Field, near Phoenix, Ariz., "the country club of the Air Corps." He was also back in the education business, this time in a private way. Barton Yount was president of the American Institute for Foreign Trade, newly organized as a nontaxable, non-profit educational corporation...
...pilot output: 500 a year), the Air Forces picked up speed rapidly. By last Nov. 30 it had trained 100,799 pilots, 20,086 bombardiers, 18,805 navigators, 107,218 aerial gunners, 555,891 ground and air combat technicians. To do the job Lieut. General Barton K. Yount had built his Training Command into the Air Forces' largest single unit. By year's end, with the big end of its job already done, the Training Command had 531,416 officers and men (exclusive of about 500,000 students). It also had more aircraft than any combat air force...
Feasible v. Popular. Newsmen, out of old antipathies from the days when yount Tom Dewey was known as "The Boy Scout," asked needling questions, kept getting keen, straightforward answers. At the end of his press conference, Tom Dewey had won most of them over, 100%. As at the Columbus Governors' Conference (Time, July 5), Dewey had stolen the show...
...times the Army has seen him flustered was at a training field where he had arranged to meet his son, Bart Jr., a West Point undergraduate and now a student flyer. General Yount climbed from his command plane, walked down the customary line of post officers to shake hands. At the end, surprised, he asked: "Where's Bart...