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...noted the below-average record of Washington children in reading and arithmetic, District of Columbia Commissioner Brigadier General Thomas A. Lane thought he knew just what was wrong and how to correct it. Integration had thrown together children of unequal preparation, he told the Washington Education Conference. West Pointer Lane's solution to the problem: a mass demotion to restore students to their proper grades...
Nameless Mission. West Pointer Merrill got command of an esoteric collection of U.S. infantrymen. They formed the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), whose parenthetical appendage proved symbolic. Culled from jungle-trained troops throughout the Pacific Theater, including a full battalion of Guadalcanal veterans (already thoroughly infected with malaria), the 3,000 men volunteered for a nameless "dangerous and hazardous mission...
...SHAPE (and "prototype" of Colonel Cantwell, hero of Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees), is slated to be board chairman of Colt's Manufacturing Co., which was taken over last week by Penn-Texas Corp. (TIME, Oct. 3). Born in Washington, B.C., West Pointer "Buck" Lanham wrote poetry until it interfered with his Army career, later edited Infantry in Battle, a widely used Army textbook. In World War II, he fought through Normandy and the Bulge with the 22nd Infantry Regiment, earned a jacketful of decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross. ¶ Walter...
...operations officer of the Continental Air Defense Command, World War II ace (16 Jap planes), and winner of the Silver Star and D.F.C. for his exploits as General Claire Chennault's operations officer and deputy chief of staff in the China-Burma-India theater; in Colorado Springs. West Pointer Vincent was the prototype of "Vince Casey" in Milton Caniff's comic strip Terry and the Pirates, became (at 29) one of the youngest general officers in Army history...
...them will be veteran pilots and experienced staff officers." The memo could have included top air commanders, for last week the head of the Strategic Air Command's combat-ready Eighth Air Force, 43-year-old Major General John B. Montgomery, resigned from the service. A non-West Pointer (Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.), Montgomery was a colonel at 32, a general at 35, had a fine combat record as well as a reputation as a staff idea man during World War II. When General LeMay took command of the Strategic Air Command he sought the brightest young officers...