Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of such influence virtually unalloyed by any contact with the outside world can only distort the Cadet's outlook to the point of uselessness, as far as dealing with ordinary mortals is concerned. Many men who served in the last war came away with the feeling that West Pointer's were little more than a modern-day version of the Prussian military caste, unadaptable to circumstances and unable to deal with personnel...
...General MacArthur had used rough and leathery General Eichelberger as his forward-passer and end-runner; from Buna through the Philippines, West Pointer Eichelberger had made more than 55 invasion landings. Few field generals had been as daring, successful or relentless against the Japs: none had commanded so many amphibious assaults on the enemy...
...Estimated time of arrival. *Wartime chief of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division, whose present "quartermaster" job is something of a return of his beginnings: no West Pointer, Huebner started his Army career as a cook...
...attention to hard work and know-how. A testament to both is a recently published compendium of the most successful proselyting techniques-Winning Converts (P. J. Kenedy & Sons; $3). Edited by the Rev. John A. O'Brien of the University of Notre Dame, it may give many a pointer to evangelizing Protestants as well as to Catholic priests and laymen...
Died. Major General William Carey Lee (ret.), 53, hard-bitten founding father of the U.S. Army's Airborne Command; of a heart ailment; in Dunn, N.C. A non-West Pointer who stuck to the Army after World War I, Paratrooper Lee spent much of the '30s as a military observer in Europe, organized the Army's first experimental paratroop units in 1940, commanded the 101st Airborne Division till a heart ailment retired him to a desk job just before...