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...reported but significant statement of official U.S. attitudes. The statement came from Henry A. Byroade, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs, and it had the prior approval of John Foster Dulles. Speaking in Ohio, before members of the Dayton World Affairs Council, West Pointer Byroade had some plain-spoken advice on the Middle East for both sides...
...around personal feuds. During the "revolt of the admirals" in 1949, with its raucous attack on the 6-36, during the MacArthur hearings of 1951, when the atmosphere was alive with bitterness and emotion, and again last year when the Air Force budget was cut by $5 billion, West Pointer Vandenberg refused to be goaded into name-calling or personal acrimony. Quietly, doggedly, and with great clarity, he plugged away at explaining the gospel of strategic air power. This gospel held that the long-range bomber, always poised with its devastating atomic load to strike back at an aggressor...
...contrast, the museum put up in its outdoor sculpture garden a collection of signs and markers that answered both objections. One was a clean-cut, red-and-black London bus-stop marker that is functionally efficient and esthetically pleasing. So is an eye-catching, striped pointer showing the way to the Northland shopping center in Detroit. Among other examples of good sign design: the simply lettered yellow-and-red Shell Oil Co. emblem and the handsome, red-and-gold store-front label of F. W. Woolworth, which has been in use since 1885. The Woolworth sign...
...Appointment of the week: Lieut. General Blackshear Morrison Bryan Jr., 54, to succeed Major General Frederick A. Irving in September as the 43rd superintendent of West Point. A strapping Louisianan, "Babe" Bryan is a West Pointer (class of '22, and twice an Army football coach) was the tough but fair assistant provost marshall in charge of all P.W. camps in the U.S. during World...
...mature, professional self-confidence. It showed itself along the muddy fighter bases behind the lines in Korea, at bomber bases in North Africa, in Alaska, Greenland and Britain, at training bases in Arizona-and in the Pentagon itself. The attitude was best symbolized by a blue-clad West Pointer who wears the four stars of the Chief of Staff of the U.S Air Force-a broad-shouldered airman with grey curly hair parted down the middle, black eyebrows, a strong nose and a big jaw-named Nathan Farragut Twining...