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General Clay's appointment-requested by his friend Eisenhower-relieved an awkward situation in Washington. For four months West Pointer Clay, a hard-driving engineering officer and supply expert, had been Jimmy Byrnes's right-hand man in the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. A stern believer in duty and principle, he had backed Byrnes on the so-called "tough war" measures (curfew, brownout, racing ban, etc.), had sternly maintained that the first & last job was to supply the fighting men. The result: some Washington officials thought he was too tough on civilians, wanted him sacked...
Home-Front Conscience. The man who may well have a deciding vote on reconversion is Major General Lucius du Bignon Clay, 47, the bushy-browed Grey Eminence of Jimmy Byrnes's office. A West Pointer, General Clay was one of the Army's top engineers when World War II came...
...Legends have begun to gather around starched Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee, West Pointer, Army engineer, and boss of Army Service Forces in Europe. Two stories now going the rounds...
Prime mover of the Sears experiment is forthright, pink-cheeked General Robert Elkington Wood, 65-year-old Sears board chairman. An aggressive merchandiser, West Pointer Wood has long dreamed of chancing the Mexican market, but risks have always tempered his enthusiasm. They still do. Said Bob Wood last week: "Hell, this is strictly . . . a gamble . . . [but] we're hoping it will be a success and then we can go on and expand in Latin America...
There was the 11th Airborne Division, an outfit new in World War II. The ist Cavalry and the 37th Infantry Divisions were the first and second to get to Manila; the paratroopers came third. Their commander: Major General Joseph M. Swing, West Pointer and onetime artilleryman. North of them, still fighting on the salients driven south and east from Lingayen Gulf and across the base of Bataan from Olongapo, were seven other divisions...