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...citation West Pointer Davidson read: "These missions, involving extreme operational hazards such as rough roads, cattle, goats, chickens, children and adverse weather, were carried out with courage, coolness, and determination, despite the expectation, probability and eventuality of long, fruitless waits for mail. On several occasions he encountered delays ranging up to one hour, sorely testing his patience, endurance and fortitude...
Colonel Canella admitted that his Army career was ''washed up." But he was most worried about the effect of the scandal on his two West Pointer sons, both combat officers overseas...
...Canol oilfield project, and for sticking to it in spite of his critics. (Operation of the $24,000,000 refinery, built with U.S. money in Canada's Northwest, began a fortnight ago-TIME, Oct. 4.) Hard-boiled and quick-tempered when the heat is on, West Pointer Somervell has long riled more ceremonious men by his disregard of red tape, his ruthless firing of officers he deems incompetent, his burning impatience with opposition or delay. His annoyed enemies call him a man on horseback...
...Quartermaster. Colonel Canella had an unblemished record of 25 years in the Army, 28 letters of commendation from various superiors. No West Pointer. he started his Army career as an ROTC man at the University of Iowa, where he played such violent football that he was dubbed the "Sicilian Assassin." Three days after Pearl Harbor, he arrived at Santa Ana to start building the air base. He liked parties, told cute stories, refereed cadets' football games. Townspeople and cadets liked...
...Several months later, Colonel Robertson arrived to take command of the base. A West Pointer, he had been wounded in World War I, retired, recalled for duty for World War II. An elegant disciplinarian, he liked to play polo with cinema people and rich orange growers...