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...plans months ago for reorganizing NORAD, the U.S.-Canadian North American Air Defense Command. His principal complaint: he did not have enough authority over assignment of NORAD's Army, Navy and Air Force officers and materiel (TIME, May 19, 1958). But nothing much ever happened about West Pointer Partridge's proposals. Fortnight ago, the Pentagon announced that able "Pat" Partridge, 58, was retiring from the Air Force, effective July 31, after 41 years of service...
...Topsham, Me. (pop. 3,500), Colonel Robert F. Carter, a 60-year-old West Pointer, is busily pursuing a hobby that reaches into the past and the future and extends around the world. Colonel Carter's determination is to read every article that has ever appeared in TIME. In the past three years, the retired Army officer has collected all but about 70 of the 1,887 issues TIME has published since it began on March...
...Carter's class of 1919 at West Point, four-star Generals Alfred Gruenther, Albert Wedemeyer and Nathan Twining, were subjects of TIME covers, and each one signed. Gruenther also helped get the autograph of Field Marshal Montgomery, who wrote across his cover portrait, "Montgomery of Alamein." Another West Pointer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, class of 1915, has appeared on TIME'S cover more than anyone else-13 times since 1942, as soldier, candidate and President*-and has signed two covers for Carter...
...Afghanistan: Crowe's predecessor in South Africa, Henry A. Byroade, 45, West Pointer who gave up his Army commission (brigadier general) for a diplomatic career in 1952, was Ambassador to Egypt...
...Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, 59, president of the American Red Cross, longtime Eisenhower Chief of Staff, friend and bridge partner. Highly successful in his own right as one of Ike's successors in NATO, West Pointer ('19) Gruenther has only one thing working against him: West Pointer ('15) Eisenhower is reluctant to have a Secretary of State who is also a retired military professional...