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...Saturday afternoon and the Pentagon was virtually deserted when the top commanders of all the services crowded into Secretary of War Patterson's spacious office. They were there to hear Winston Churchill, who had come to renew his ties with the men he had known well during the war, to meet those he had known only from the communiques...
...wounded by a failure. When I lay an egg, I am worried lest it become a chain reaction." He wishes people would stop comparing his new works with his old. "It's unfair to compare me with myself," he says. "My mind is involved and peculiar like the Pentagon Building, with several levels and ramps...
...many others) to General Hodges and Madame Soong, General Krueger and Senator Vandenberg, Mrs. Jimmy Doolittle and the mother of General Mark Clark. TIME'S painting of General Patton is framed at his Massachusetts home "Green Meadow" - General Somervell's portrait is in his office at the Pentagon Building - and our painting of General "Tooey" Spaatz hangs on the wall of his wife's home in Washington ("I have never seen a picture of him half as good," she wrote Artist Baker...
fleet? Air admirals like Aubrey Fitch, back in Washington from the Pacific, flatly said "yes." But from the Pentagon across the Potomac, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson said "no" - the Japs' failure to retaliate against Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet and the Superfortresses merely meant that they were hoarding "plenty" of planes against invasion. Another air admiral, DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, new Fifth Fleet chief of staff, defined "plenty." He estimated the enemy hoard at 9,000 planes...
...appropriation to another fund let the Army play fast & loose with Congress' intentions. With 10% of a $25 million expediting fund. 10% of a $16 million engineers' service fund, plus sums transferred from highway funds, the War Department was able to spend $86 million on the Pentagon Building-after Congress had authorized an expenditure on "that white elephant" not to exceed $35 million...