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Last week General Andrews was no longer unique. Appointed Deputy Chief of Staff was another Air Corps man: genial, white-haired Major General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold. A West Pointer (class of 1907-a year after Frank Andrews), "Hap" Arnold learned his flying from the Wright Brothers, has kept at it since 1911, has commanded the Air Corps for two years. Kicked upstairs to the staff job, he will have charge of Air Corps matters under George Marshall...
...rosy dawn. Full sunrise came in a list of promotions of 26 general officers. They will help boss an army, ground and air, that is being increased from 227,000 to 1,400,000 in one year. Heading the list as No. 1 U. S. flying officer was West Pointer Delos Carleton Emmons, commander of the GHQ Air Force and until last week "Hap" Arnold's subordinate. George Marshall's list gave Delos Emmons the rank of lieutenant general, shared only by the commanders of the U. S.'s four field armies. No airman had ever flown...
...they reckoned on a thumping overturn of precedent. Only four Negroes have ever graduated from West Point (none from Annapolis) and today the Army has only two regular Negro line officers: Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, commanding officer of Harlem's 369th Coast Artillery (National Guard), and his West Pointer son, Lieut. B. O. Davis Jr., military instructor at Tuskegee Institute. Before 1940's emergency the Army had only four Negro regiments of regulars (two cavalry, two infantry); all are officered by white men. Since July 1, 17 other Negro outfits have been formed (including a regiment of engineers...
...culture by a band of adventurers). Lifetime of a culture is about 1,500 years. Western culture of 1940 is at about the same stage of its life cycle as the Egyptian of 1600 B.C., Chinese of 250 B.C., Classical of 100 B.C. For proof Spengler waved his learned pointer at such diverse phenomena as Karnak's temples, Mozart quartets, Chinese gardening, Marxism, Aztec city planning, jazz, Greek vases, Napoleon, Russian grammar...
Asked West Pointer Haskell: "Who is Margie Hart?" Someone told him. Across the package he scrawled "Refused," ordered the photos returned...