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...bargained on, as Secretary Brucker told it, with West Pointer Gavin holding out for the Continental Army Command assignment, an anguished Brucker pleading that Gavin should at least stay on in his present job. At length Gavin promised to "reconsider," for despite his personal ambitions, he still felt strongly for the Army's cause...
...Gavin paused for breath, Subcommittee Chairman Lyndon Johnson asked him: "Do you anticipate any criticism as a result of your very frank responses to [our] questions?" Replied West Pointer Gavin: "No sir, I do not." Last week, to the surprise of his closest friends, Jim Gavin-often called the most important man in the Army-announced that he will retire in March, after 30 years of service...
...Matter of Batting. In the midst of Russia's dangerous mixture of bluster and acknowledged technological performance, the free world can take considerable satisfaction from the fact that the U.S. Air Force is in command of a brilliant, unobtrusive West Pointer with a flair for understatement. Tommy White, 56, a tall, austere airman with a ramrod-back carriage, well knows the Russian danger, well knows the need to tighten and use the bomber force-in-being to best advantage while the U.S. brings in its missile force...
...color-set owners), with a bevy of new performers led by young, moist-eyed Jill Corey, whose vocal renderings come with a lush, built-in sob. On the densely populated show called The Big Record, moonfaced Patti Page was mostly what the late Fred Allen called a Pointer, i.e., someone who points at someone else doing an act and says "Watch him"-the sort of trick that "you could teach a dog to do by smearing meat on the actors." But when Patti lent her big, plain voice to the color-drenched proceedings, she was as pretty and wholesome...
...Cooper Clarke, Seventh Army commander and veteran combat soldier (World War II and Korea), has sent down the word to his subordinate officers: "These individuals require special motivation and instruction. This group contains many of the misfits who, if they cannot be assimilated, must be eliminated." Last week West Pointer Clarke reported that more than 4,200 misfits had been sent home for discharge, another 3,000 put through special remedial courses. But some 41,000 low-grades still burden Clarke's round-the-clock training program in an age when atomic war requires bright, trained specialists and combat...