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...command while he was inspecting a forward artillery position on the Korean front. His succession to all the titles of MacArthur was as sudden and startling as his appointment to the Eighth Army's command 3½ months ago on the death of Lieut. General Walton Walker. "Oh my gosh," he stammered as he read the orders from Washington. Next day, Ridgway and his VIP visitor, Army Secretary Frank Pace, flew to Tokyo...
Eighth Army's late commander, General Walton ("Johnny") Walker, was a steady, courageous battle leader who was inclined to flounder in staff work and had 11ttle imagination. After the Chinese Communists smashed into North Korea, neither Walker's starched generalship nor the remote-control direction of Douglas Mac-Arthur's staff in Tokyo could give the Army the direction it needed. Ridgway can. Omar Bradley called him "one of those tremendously valuable Army officers who are both outstanding commanders and amazingly competent staff officers. He can plan an action and he can execute...
...Academy, 1911; cavalry lieutenant on Mexican bor der, 1916; aide to commanding general of 42nd Divi sion in World War I; commander, 85th Division in Italy, World War II; commander, XXIV Corps occupying Korea, 1948; commander, I Corps 1949-50; returned to Korea last August as the late General Walton Walker's troubleshooter-in-chief, later became commander of IX Corps...
...sharpest bumps. Weighing only 25.8 tons, it can be transported by air, is already in limited production at the Army's Cleveland plant. At Aberdeen last week, Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins officially christened the T-41 the "Walker Bulldog," in honor of the late General Walton ("Little Bulldog") Walker, the Eighth Army's commander, who died in a jeep accident in Korea. Collins, admitting that the first U.S. light tanks in Korea had been unable to stand up to the Russian T-34 medium tanks, asserted flatly: "I can assure you this little baby will...
...features puppets, girls pretending to be elves, a disc jockey who silently mouths the words his records play. Memphis boasts an unhandy Handy Man named Peter Thomas who convulses viewers by spilling paste on his sponsor and gravy on his guests. Louisville applauds the low-comedy antics of Jim Walton (a blindfolded woman from the studio audience sews a red heart on the seat of a man's pants...