Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...LeMay picked handsome, high-polished Thomas Sarsfield Power, 45, a bold, skillful pilot and something the Old Man is not: a diplomat and smoother-over. LeMay's chief of staff, tall, soft-spoken Major General August Walter Kissner, 44, is two other things LeMay is not: a West Pointer and a man who can do paper work and like...
...Pointer. So far television has found no way to compete with radio's fast-breaking, flexible news coverage. Except for its dramatic United Nations telecasts, TV has contented itself with scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront. John Cameron Swayze on NBC-TV's Camel News Caravan explains battle positions on his map with the aid of animated planes, tanks and troops...
Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer, 60, is running the Far East Air Force in smooth cooperation with the Army. Top-ranking air officer in the China-Burma-India Theater during the last war, West Pointer "Strat" directed the 1944 Tenth Air Force offensive against the Japanese in Burma. At the same time he organized an airlift which supplied Allied ground troops in Burma with an average of 2,000 tons of food and equipment a day even during the monsoon season.. Calm and considerate, West Pointer Stratemeyer has something of the air of a jolly college professor, manages...
...minor ironies of history, Grant's resignation was accepted by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. The path of West Pointer Davis had already crossed that of another coming man: in the Black Hawk War (1832), where he served as a lieutenant of regulars, Davis had administered the oath of allegiance to Captain-of-Volunteers Abraham Lincoln...
...lines in his face and there was a heavier frost of whiteness in his hair. But there was more of a change than that-something the office had done to the man. He no longer looked like an anonymous face in the crowd. He stood erect as a West Pointer, radiated confidence, and looked amazingly trim for a man of 65. He had sampled authority, and liked it. He could reward friends, punish enemies. He had proved that he could whip his opponents even when some of his own supporters were dragging their feet. Not only was Harry Truman used...