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Into Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Benning, Ga., last week poured a stream of new faces. They were crack officers, detailed in a great batch of Army orders to join the new Armored Force. In officers' conferences the new force's commander, Brigadier General Adna Romanza Chaffee, leather-faced son of the late onetime Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Adna R. Chaffee, looked around at a wide assortment of Army insignia. Some, like himself, wore on their collars the crossed sabres of the Cavalry. Present also were the rifles of the Infantry, the cannons of the Artillery...
Married. Louisa Ayres Robert, 24, comely swimming star, daughter of National Democratic Committee Secretary Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr. by his first wife, Louise Ayres; and Grant Meade Le Roux: in Atlanta, Ga...
...preparatory hum spread through the U. S. last week. Army arsenals at Rock Island, 111., Augusta, Ga., Benicia, Calif., Frankford, Pa., Dover, N. J., Metuchen, N. J.; San Antonio, Tex., Springfield, Mass., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N. Y., Edgewood, Md., were put on a six-day week. Two shipbuilders (Bath Iron Works Corp., Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings...
Sixteen years ago a handsome young Episcopal rector of Christ Church, Macon, Ga., heard that his name was up for nomination to the Bishopric of Florida. He withdrew his name, protesting that he was "much too young." Thirteen years later, Oliver James Hart III, now rector of St. John's ("The Church of the Presidents") in Washington, D. C., again declined, this time to become Bishop Coadjutor of Tennessee. In the next 16 months he turned down two more bishoprics: the Dioceses of Central New York and Delaware...
Head machinist for the Exposition Cotton Mills in Atlanta, Ga. is a wiry, hawk-nosed little man (5 ft. 4 in.), with dark blue eyes, greasy, dexterous hands, a fourth-grade education, six grown children, a passion for hunting rabbits with bow & arrow, and some "gold needles," which are divining-rod-like devices for locating gold...