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...Selfridge Field cases worked down the defendants in rank, sentences rose in severity. The commanding colonel, William T. Colman got off lightest: demotion to captain (TIME, Sept. 27) for drunkenness and careless use of firearms in shooting a Negro private. A lieutenant colonel found guilty of drunkenness and fraudulent transfer of soldiers was ordered dismissed from the service. A major and a warrant officer also were sentenced to dismissal...
...temperamental trapeze star. Private Kelly's yearning to get back in the air (in a plane) and an approaching court-martial for breach of discipline cause him to toy with Kathryn Grayson's affections in hopes that her father, his Colonel (John Boles), will transfer him to the Air Forces. The Colonel wants a less insubordinate son-in-law. Aware that trapeze work involves a certain amount of disciplined cooperation, he asks the young artist's adoptive family, The Flying Corbinos, to needle the boy during the camp's Victory Show. So they discuss teamwork with...
Harvard will start off with ten of the eleven men who opened against the soldiers last week, with Jed Goldberg at right guard the only new face. The 185-pound V-12 transfer from Johns Hopkins is filling in for the injured Wally Mroz, but Mroz will also see some action. Everyone else on the squad is in good shape...
...ride out World War II with his boots planted behind a Washington desk. The man Pershing called the finest officer in World War I wants to see some action. Months ago the rumors of General Marshall's next move simmered down into a strong possibility: the President would transfer George Marshall to England to lead the Allied invasion of Europe...
...court's findings must be reviewed by higher military authorities, who can reverse the convictions or lighten the sentence, but cannot increase it. This week Lieut. Colonel Charles G. White, Colonel Colman's former executive officer at Selfridge, was on trial charged with drunkenness and illegal transfer of men, before an entirely new court. The Detroit Times wondered acidly whether this was "a devious apology...