Word: artilleryman
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...Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in the occupation and reconstruction of Japan. He was the strongest bulwark against the Far East's Communists, who had long cried for his head. If Douglas MacArthur had an admirer in the White House set, it was Truman himself, an ex-artilleryman with an innate respect for soldiering...
...Lord of Creation." Matt Ridgway began his Army career informally some 45 years ago, when he used to shout a sentry's challenge to visitors from the porch of the family quarters at Fort Walla Walla, Wash. His father, Colonel Thomas Ridgway, was a Regular Army artilleryman who had served with an international contingent in China during the Boxer Rebellion...
...chief of staff: "Here is the spirit of the front line, which brings a solidarity found nowhere else in Germany, perhaps nowhere else in Europe . . ." Then Taylor introduced his successor, Major General Lemuel Mathewson, 51, a West Pointer with 28 years' service in the Army, and a crack artilleryman. Said General Taylor: "He will be another American who came to occupy Berlin, stayed to defend it, and left as a Berliner...
MacArthur's acting chief of staff for military operations, Major General Doyle O. Hickey, called in the bureau chiefs for a powwow. A precise, genial artilleryman, Hickey asked the newsmen for their ideas on what should be done. At the suggestion of the A.P.'s Russell Brines, the Army set up the Press Advisory Division, a staff of officers who could be consulted on security matters but who had no censorship powers...
...neck. Harry Truman had hardly begun the commendation when one of the seven-month-old Chambers twins grabbed at the script, rattled it vigorously until restrained by a firm presidential hand. Then the other twin reached up for the President's pocket handkerchief. But despite the interruptions, ex-Artilleryman Truman held his smile until after the ceremony was over and the picture-taking began. He read his lines seriously; the U.S. gives no Medals of Honor lightly...