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...every Army contract to make certain the U.S. got its money's worth. But General Browning, like many another top businessman, is in Washington only for the duration. So Colonel Hauseman was called from Philadelphia to take over. Now he puts in an eleven-hour day in his Pentagon Building office, smoothly settles canceled contracts at the rate of $1,000,000,000 monthly...
...leave of absence from his chair as Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History at Harvard, Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Taylor heads the group that is writing the official Army history of the war. Up to now Taylor has held down a desk job in the Pentagon Building at Washington, but it was reported this week that he has gone overseas or is about to leave...
...search run by the news agency Science Service. They had tea in the White House with Eleanor Roosevelt before she went off to Puerto Rico. They chatted with Vice President Wallace, hobnobbed with eminent elder scientists, swarmed irreverently through the halls of Congress and the endless corridors of the Pentagon...
...students in the Army to continue working for their degrees, and in giving every soldier the opportunity to obtain an education while working in an otherwise perhaps humdrum job, tall, lanky, pragmatic, brilliant, New Englander Spaulding is doing one of the most significant jobs of anyone in Washington's Pentagon labyrinth...
...Spaulding is a long, lean, burning enthusiast for the job of teaching soldiers. When he burns hot enough he bursts out with "Godfrey!" Sometimes he even goes as far as "Gosh!" He is one of the fastest coffee-and-sandwich racers down the illimitable corridors of Washington's Pentagon Building. A pragmatic New Englander, he was Harvard's dean of education before the Army took...