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...Polifka was grounded. "He fought like a stuck pig to dice Cassino," said an officer on Lieut. General Ira Eaker's staff in Italy, "but the General just wouldn't let him go on another mission...
...solve the housing problem, Secretary Goddard hires out her boss and herself as husband & wife, butler & cook, to browbeaten, glad-eyed Ira Cromwell (Roland Young), who is trying to make a home for his baritone wife (Anne Revere), a major in the PLOPS.* Later the pair take servant jobs with New Dealer Ritchie, outwit a sneering rival toymaker, cop the contract and each other...
Readers will find Tarawa the work of a crack reporter, the most vivid book on the Pacific war since Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8. Many will find it stomach-turning in its horrifying depiction of battle. That was Author Sherrod's prime objective: "Our information services [have] failed to impress the people with the hard facts of war. . . . There is no easy way to win. . . . [There will] be many other bigger and bloodier Tarawas...
...Clinton Dotson McKinnon announced that the first edition of his New Dealish evening Journal would be published on St. Patrick's Day (because his mother was Irish). The Journal will break the San Diego general newspaper monoply of rich, myopic, 79-year-old Colonel Ira Clifton Copley owner of the arch-Republican morning Union (circ. 44,359) and evening Tribune-Sun (circ...
...shift that surprised London military men will send Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, down to the Mediterranean to lead all Allied air operations in that theater, and bring Major General James H. Doolittle up as chief of the Eighth. Eaker, a crack officer with an unparalleled grasp of the problems of daylight precision bombing, had fought long and successfully for that American theory of air attack. Few of his friends could doubt that he must be deeply disappointed at departing now, just when he had built his air force to the point...