Word: sidekicker
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General Wavell's Deputy Supreme Commander-in other words his chief sidekick, his alter ego-was to be Major General George H. Brett, 55, Chief of the Air Corps of the U.S. Army. A good choice, certainly. He would assure the air arm of a hearing. An expert on supply, he would see to first things first: secure lines before tactical missions. Fresh from a tour which took in Egypt, Britain, India and Russia, he probably knew more about problems of Allied cooperation than any other U.S. officer. Grey-haired, dapper, popular, he has not let desk duties ground...
...bombing; he had smashed up some buildings, some airplanes. He had managed to grab a precarious foothold on a beach 260 miles from the center of Luzon's resistance. But the Army's Far Eastern Commander, lean, brilliant Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur, and his grizzled Navy sidekick, Admiral Tommy Hart, had been waiting with their knives...
...gave him a sidekick for executive matters, such as the supply of tanks, guns, water. This job fell to broad-shouldered, smooth, East-wise Lieut. General Sir Robert Hadden Haining, recently Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff, whose new title was one never before used in the British Army: Intendant General. It meant what it said-superintendent without the super...
SPILL THE JACKPOT - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). How to milk a slot machine is one of the valuable tips herein offered by Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, hired not to find a vanished bride. But they find her after the No. 1 Milker's sidekick is murdered...
Angels Over Broadway (Columbia). In spite of the fabulous salary he draws as a screen writer (some $6,000 weekly) balding Ben Hecht spends many of his expensive words on acid comments about Hollywood moviemakers. Possibly as protest, he and his sidekick, Playwright Charles MacArthur, took four flings at independent movie production, scored one bull's-eye with The Scoundrel, eventually quit. This year, Columbia gave Hecht $260,000 worth of Hollywood backing with which he wrote, produced, directed Angels Over Broadway, another of his preoccupations with the regeneration of moral strays who have felt the cooling shadow...