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...forces had retreated, spotted among the Cossack Brigade's remaining officers a striking six-foot Persian with hard grey eyes. His name was Reza Khan. The colonel knew him for a brave man and, in a last desperate attempt to keep the brigade together, he put him in command. Had he not done so, the future King of Kings might have died an unknown old horse bully...
About to take over his newest and biggest job, Andy Andrews today is rated one of the Army's finest field commanders-a rare distinction among airmen, who usually know more about flying airplanes than about command and staff work. For want of more officers with General Andrews' capacity for command, the newly autonomous Army Air Forces is having trouble aplenty. And it is not unlikely that General Andrews may yet find himself in still bigger flying boots...
...Martini sipper (who says that he has yet to find a properly mixed Martini). He likes to take his friends on cocktail-picnic parties. In short, he has unusual social adaptability joined to his forthright military drive. With modesty and patience, he has survived a difficult, frustrated tour as commander of the Caribbean Air Forces under his predecessor in the top command, Lieut. General Daniel Van Voorhis. Last week General Van Voorhis was ordered to duty as commander of the Fifth Corps Area. Essentially, Corps Area command is a military housekeeping job. General Van Voorhis should do very well...
British Press Service announced that "Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten* . . . has come to the United States to take command of the British aircraft carrier Illustrious and to supervise her repairs in an undisclosed American shipyard...
Stalwart as her massive mahogany fourposter, a hateful woman whose keen mind and force of character command respect, Regina lures her unloved and invalided husband (Herbert Marshall) home to persuade him to invest his funds in her ratty brothers' scheme: to take advantage of the South's cheap and defenseless labor by establishing a cotton factory in partnership with a Northern capitalist. When he balks, she torments him to death, then emerges triumphant over the rest of the greedy pack...