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...TIME for snapping Lieut. Colonel Thayer's girdle. It reassures our confidence in leadership to see the Air Force so effectively buttress itself. Social champagne commissionings in the Pentagon boost the morale of the guys in Korea, especially anybody with less rank than lieutenant colonel . . . Best of all, this is swell strategy: when that company of fighting Chinese Communist females find out, they'll vamoose, fearing a barrage of empty champagne bottles from the "colonel's" plane...
Guns & Pork. The budget-cutters were also beginning to cast a flinty eye at the Pentagon, which was down for the lion's share-a lump sum $41.4 billion of the coming budget. There were doubtless millions to be saved by resisting the Pentagon's request for a blank check, and making the admirals and generals come up with some specific figures...
Senator Morse (R-Ore.) said yesterday that he would "make a real fight on the Senate floor" against certain provisions of the bill which the Armed Services Committee approved. He objected to the use of the Congress as a rubber stamp for Pentagon proposals...
...reporter ferreting through the Pentagon files found that 50 sons of U.S. Army generals are now fighting in the Korean war. Lieut. General Alfred Gruenther has two fighting sons. Major Generals Thomas F. Hickey and Albert C. Smith each has one. Lieut. Hobart R. Gay Jr. is the jet-pilot son of Major General Hobart R. Gay, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division in Korea; Captain Sam Walker is the son of the late General Walton H. Walker. Those who have lost sons in action so far: Lieut. General Thomas B. Larkin, Brigadier Generals David H. Blakelock, John Magruder...
Today, at 41, Kallio is one of America's top portrait sculptors. He first gained fame in Washington with a posthumous portrait of James Forrestal, which now stands in the Mall entrance to the Pentagon. Kallio read everything he could find about Forrestal, decided he resembled "a character in the Kalevala [Finland's national epic] who worked hard all his life, was good, and finally stabbed himself...