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...replace him at NORAD's headquarters in Colorado Springs, President Eisenhower last week tabbed four-star General Lawrence S. (for Sherman) Kuter, 53, Air Force commander in the Pacific. A brigadier general at 36-he was then the youngest general* in the nation's armed forces -slim, mustached West Pointer ('27) Larry Kuter saw duty in Britain, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II, was the first boss (1948-51) of the Military Air Transport Service...
...Kuter's replacement at the Air Force's Pacific headquarters in Hawaii: Brooklyn-born Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, 52, a West Pointer ('28) who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross soon after Pearl Harbor for his solo B-17 attack against Japanese warships off the Philippine coast, led the first B-29 raid on Tokyo. Now the Air Force's hard-driving deputy chief of staff for personnel, Lieut. General O'Donnell can look forward to wearing a fourth star in his new post...
...Eastern Affairs Walter Robertson, hit a quick consensus that the Communists had stopped shooting because their artillery blockade of Quemoy had failed, and they were unwilling or unable to step up the pressures in the teeth of U.S. and Chinese Nationalist firmness. In Tokyo General Laurence S. Kuter, Pacific Air Forces commander, reviewing gun-camera pictures of Chinese Nationalist jet victories,*said flatly that Red China had taken "a beating...
...named to command MATS was lean, able Major General Laurence S. Kuter, U.S. representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal, who recently turned down a post as CAB chairman, when the Senate refused to let him keep his rank and higher Army pay on the new job. He would take over the command of MATS on March...
...Larry Kuter (rhymes with pewter), a lean West Pointer ('27), looked like just the man to carry out the Finletter Commission's prescription for a closer tie between the Government's military and civil air branches. Trained as a bomber pilot, he became a brigadier general at 36 (the Army's youngest). He got to be known as a "fair-haired boy" of General Hap Arnold, served as Assistant Chief of Air Staff, commanded a division of bombers in England, helped to plan and carry out the strategic bombings of Japan, was awarded the Distinguished Service...