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Today, Jan. 30, the anniversary of your birth, smoke-begrimed men, covered with the marks of battle, rise from the fox holes of Bataan and the batteries of Corregidor to pray reverently that God may bless immeasurably the President of the United States. So cabled General Douglas Mac Arthur, who, like Winston Churchill, can turn a dramatic phrase...
Somehow the battered Philippine Air Force managed to get some pursuit planes into the air during the week. Airmen climbed joyfully into P-40s-probably rebuilt from junked craft-and went hunting. To Douglas Mac Arthur this small air support meant more than striking power. It meant that for the first time on Bataan he could see through his pilots' eyes what...
...Mac the Phony Booster, who peddles sleazier ties which he claims to have stolen but which he really bought very cheap. Paddy despises Mac as a racketeer but, as the dipsomaniac bouncer at Jollity Danceland tells him, soothingly, "It takes all kinds of people to make up a great city...
MacArthur's Style. Wherever Mac-Arthur goes he travels as if draped in the American Flag itself and preceded by a guard of honor. But while civilian critics used to consider MacArthur a swashbuckling, colorful, impeccably dressed soldier with a penchant for the William Jennings Bryan type of oratory, most of his Army contemporaries thought him a strict disciplinarian, a magnificent leader of men in action, a first-class fighting...
MacArthur's Problem. Last week Mac-Arthur was deep in one of the most difficult problems of his career. Defense of the Philippines was always planned in the belief that communications with the Philippine Islands could be kept open...