Word: reservist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after nine years of military service, Howley (now a brigadier general) resigned to go home to his advertising business. To succeed Reservist Howley as commander in Berlin, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy got a topflight U.S. professional-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, wartime commander of the famed 101st Airborne Division, later Superintendent of West Point, more recently Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in Europe. Taylor's most spectacular wartime exploit came in 1943 when-he slipped through the German lines wearing his U.S. uniform, and under the Nazis' noses made his way to Rome...
...course. But the Army would convert part of the post hospital into comfortable family quarters for a long country weekend on the shores of Long Island. The idea, which started at Fort Mac-Arthur, Calif, last fall, was already working so well there that attendance had jumped from 150 reservists a weekend to 600, with at least 150 families a week tagging along. The men got a chance to do a little brushing up on their weapons and marksmanship. Their wives and youngsters had a wonderful time at the swimming pool and among the rock-bottom prices of the post...
...director will take orders from them and have no more than administrative power. To that job Harry Truman named quiet, 53-year-old Rear Admiral Sidney William Souers (rhymes with flowers), Naval Reservist, onetime Missouri businessman (life insurance, linen service, real estate, Piggly-Wiggly stores). Harry Truman knew him as an old friend. Businesslike Admiral Souers, who has had more active duty than most Reservists, is one of the few men to achieve flag rank without going to sea. For eight years he served as Senior Intelligence Officer in St. Louis. His latest Navy job: deputy chief of Naval Intelligence...
General Doolittle was full-out for the merger of the services recently proposed by a special committe appointed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plan would 1) unify military command, 2) set up an independent air force. Reservist Doolittle, who does not have to worry about a postwar military career, went out of his way to blast the committee's one dissenting member, an "elderly retired Admiral" (67-year-old J. O. Richardson). Said Doolittle: "[His] is the type of retarded military thinking that held ... aviation back...
G.I.s who had fought in battle for their souvenirs were vociferously disgusted by the antics of the rear-echelon boys. Said a naval reservist, well supplied with well-won combat stars: "It's like the circus, when the death-defying aerial act has ended. Out come the clowns, beating each other over the head with bladders and whacking each other's backsides with explosive paddles. Well, the clowns can have it. I'm going home...