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Rich with good, battle-tested officers, Hap Arnold had no trouble finding a successor for Ira Eaker as head of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force. His choice: husky, bald-headed Lieut. General John K. (Uncle Joe) Cannon, whose Twelfth Air Force in Italy had blasted the way for Allied forces from Salerno to Milan...
Capable, good-natured Barney Giles had left one of the most important staff jobs in the Air Forces: deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and Chief of Air Staff. To replace him, General Hap Arnold called in a distinguished combat veteran, Lieut. General Ira Eaker, 49, onetime fighter pilot and literary collaborator of Hap Arnold. Bald, equable Ira Eaker, who had setup the Eighth Air Force in England, battle-tested the Air Forces doctrine of precision daylight bombing, and forged the first close links between the Air Forces and the R.A.F., had been out of the U.S. since February...
...N.A.M. Regrets. The charter was greeted with hosannas from almost everyone, except the stodgy National Association of Manufacturers. N.A.M.'s dogmatic President Ira Mosher carped that the principles were good as far as they went but they were "unspecific . . . premature and made up of generalities. . . . This is a job for Congress. All consumers must have their interests protected...
...Firebrand of Florence (music by Kurt Weill; book by Edwin Justus Mayer & Ira Gershwin; produced by Max Gordon) sets to music Edwin Justus Mayer's 20-year-old comedy about Benvenuto Cellini, The Firebrand. Though the music itself proves an asset, it has to consort with a yarn that time has made paunchy and libretto-writing made puerile. The brawling mankiller, the dashing lady-killer, the impudent, artistic scapegallows Benvenuto (Earl Wrightson) becomes just another musicomedy swashbuckler; the plot and gags are such spinach that the whole thing turns out to be a musical poached eggs Florentine...
Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes), was newspictured in the snows at Sequoia National Park, Calif., where he and his bride of three weeks are honeymooning...