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...born Historian Stefan Lorant (Lincoln-A Picture Story of His Life-Harper; $6). Last week Lorant presented the source of his knowledge to West Point-a packet of manuscripts that he had bought from Grant's descendants. Among the manuscripts were nine tragic little notes, penciled by West Pointer Grant himself. Such notes were about his only means of conversation after cancer destroyed his voice...
...ranking pointer was Lieut. General George H. Decker, the Army's comptroller. On Sept. 27, 1950, said Decker, George Catlett Marshall (who had been Secretary of Defense for just six days) issued an order: "In preparation of budget estimates ... it will be assumed that . . . combat operations in Korea will be concluded by 30 June, 1951 . . ." From then on, the Defense Department always made its plans-for ammunition and everything else-on the assumption that the Korean war would be over within the fiscal year. During his term of office, Lovett reissued the Marshall directive with appropriate changes of dates...
Perpetual Games. From 9 to 5, with an hour off for a bowl of soup, Ave Maria's students play at their perpetual games. And with his black cape flapping behind him, Father Pedro strides among them, swinging his schoolmaster's pointer, stopping to laugh and chat just as his uncle once did. "We have followed the path he has traced for us," says he. "It is a path of laughter, fun and achievement...
This coolly calculated approach to the opposition is duplicated in Whitfield's detachment when he looks at himself. "I learn all the time," he says. Just last summer, touring Europe after his Olympic victory, he picked up a pointer from a German trainer. The trick, which reverses standard U.S. coaching theory: go into a turn at top speed, let momentum carry you around. "It's much less tiring," says Whitfield, "and I haven't run a poor race since I learned...
...Colonel Aubrey Dewitt Smith, chief of the Plans & Operations Division (Logistics Section) of the U.S. Army in Japan, was destined for bigger things. An up & coming West Pointer (class of '30), decorated at Okinawa (Silver Star) and a Korean war veteran, his life was all Army...