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Many Former Military Leaders Make Good Names in Industry MAIL TRIBUNE, MIferf, Oregon, Monday, November 17. 1958 S Editor' not: since World War TI an Increasing number of the nations' his h-ranking military leaders bave been "drafted' by in dnitry into big-pay inf civilian Jobs. What -were their qualifica tions? How are they doing? How do they like their new jobs? This U the first of six dispatches in which a noted reporter provides the answers through Interviews with a representative group of these "tycoons out of uniform." By JAMES L. KILGALLEN IPD Correspondent New York-tPB-Many well known former military lead ers are making good in Amer ican industry. They are prov ing to be the "prize catches" of Big Business. . The administrative knack that served them in the arm ed forces has set these ex-generals and admirals into im portant peacetime posts which pay them salaries of $100,000 or $150,000 a year, and more. Hundreds of other former military men have been re cruited into lesser-paying po sitions, not only in industry but in other fields such as ed ucation, diplomacy and pub lic service. Many of the "tycoons out of uniform" were associated with Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II, and it might not be amiss to point out that "Ike" himself, as President of the United Stat es, is holding down a job that takes some doing. Retired General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, now 78, is currently chairman of the board of the Sperry Hand corporation. He went to Remington Rand as board chairman in 1952 and took ov er his present position in 1955 when Remington Rand and Sperry merged. Health Good MacArthur's health is good. He lives at the Waldorf-As toria hotel in New York with his wife and son Arthur, a student at Columbia univer sity. The Sperry executive headquarters are in the RCA building in New York but Gen. MacArthur has his busi ness office in Rowayton, Conn. Gen. Lucius D. Clay of "Berlin airlift" fame is now In his eighth year as chair man of the board and chief executive officer of the Con tinental Can company. Un der his management sales of the company have grown tre mendously. He gets to work at 8 a.m. in his New York of fice and regards the hour be tween 8 and 9 a.m. as the most valuable of his work day. Getting up early is an old Army habit. Chairman of Board . Gen. Omar N. Bradley, 65 years of age, is chairman of the board of the Bulova Watch company. He also is chairman of the company's re search laboratories and, as such, has an opportunity to continue his long- time work in the rehabilitation of dis abled veterans. . Sixty-year-old Gen. An thony C. McAuliffe, who serv ed 38 years in the Army, is now fti his second year as vice president for engineer ing and construction of the American Cyanamid . com- oany. with offices in New York. Lt. Gen. James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle, who led the devas tating air attacks on Japan early in World War II, is vice president of the Shell Oil company. He is also director and member of the executive tommittee. Reigned as Chairman Sixty-year-old Admiral Ben Moreell, the Seabee organizer and Navy base builder, recent ly resigned as board chairman of the Janes & Laughlin Steel corporation, Pittsburgh, after an 11-year tenure. Adm. Mo relle joined J & L in 1947. He was reported to have drawn a salary of S150.000 a year. He will remain as a director of the company. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, who ran NATO after -chalking up a brilliant career as a military commander, is now chairman of the board of the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research at Pittsburgh. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Ike's wartime right arm and Under-secretary of State in the early 1950s, is vice chair man of the board of the Amer ican Machine & Foundry com pany, and president of AMF Atomics, Inc., a subsidiary. Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, USA (retired), wartime direct or of the nation's atom-bomb project, is serving as vice president of Remington Rand with offices at Stamford," Conn. Adm. Robert B. Carney, for mer Chief of Naval Opera tions, who "worked as a sailor for 41 years." is another who is making good in industry. Since his retirement in Aug-' ust, 1955, he has been a di rector of the Fairchild En gine and Airplane- Corporation- He also is a member of the board of trustees of the Bath Iron Works Corporation. Other military men are holding down important posi tions not pniy in business but in other fields. For example, Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, one of Presi dent Eisenhower's closest friends who devoted 40 years of his life to the Army, is now president of the American Red Cross with offices in Washington, D. C. Gen. Mark Clark, who com manded the Fifth Army in Italy in World War II, is presi dent of The Citadel, a mili tary college at Charleston, S. C. Lt. Gen. Willis D. Critten- berger (retired), the noted tank officer, is closing out his career as president of the Free Europe Committee, inc., which operates Radio Free Europe. And so on. The list is long. Many other former military men can be found in a wide variety of jobs with civilian airlines, automobile com panies, electronics concerns, research laboratories, aircraft companies, shipbuilding firms and elsewhere. (Next: Gen. Lucius Clay) Lucille Ball Goes it Alone on Tonight's Show By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspon dent Hollywood -(CPU- Lucille Ball goes it alone tonight making her first television ap pearance in eight years with out her husband Desi Arnaz at her side. Is she scared? "You bet," the red-haired comedienne admitted. "But not because I'm afraid to go on without Desi. I've been worried about getting away from the character of 'Lucy.' After playing that scatter brained gal for so long it's sec ond nature for me." Tonight Lucille portrays a feminine prize-fight manager with Aldo Ray and Bill Lun digan on the "Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse." She's diz zy, daffy and delightful, but definitely not Lucy. "I sorta play myself," she laughed, "but the trouble is I'm not very different from Lucy. During rehearsals I would catch myself slipping into the old characterization, and I had to fight it. No Fred And Ethel "Things were made easier by the fact that Vivian Vance and Bill Frawley (Ethel and Fred Mertz) weren't involved. "Whenever I got excited I'd call Aldo 'Desi' or some times 'Ricky'." Lucille can't turn off her Lucy personality altogether. She has three more hour-long shows to do this season as Lucy Ricardo opposite Desi. "This program isn't too much of a departure from what I've been doing for the past eight years and for 180 half-hour TV shows," she sighed. "I'd like to play some thing really different as an exercise, if for no other rea son. But that doesn't mean I want to play Macbeth. "Desi had almost nothing to do with 'K.O. Kitty' that's the name of this show. He appered on the set only twice. Once to sell us a cha-cha-cha song he'd just writ ten. We're using it, too. "It seemed strange to turn around and not find him at my side," Lucy added. "But I missed Vivian even more. We were inseparable during the Lucy series. , Plan More Singles "Desi and I both plan more single appearances if we can find the right scripts. We're very happy not to be doing the half-hour shows anymore. "Our writers needed a rest and I found the series too con fining. Now I have more time to devote to the children, and Desi keeps terribly busy with all our other projects. "If Desi had a choice to make he wouldn't choose to be in front of the cameras, nor behind his desk. I think he'd like to be on the road with a band again. "Darned if I'm not going to do something to bring music back into his life. He loves music, and he needs it." With that Lucille left the lunch table and climbed into her electric golf cart for the two-block trip from the Para mount Studio commissary to her dressing room at Desilu Studios. She looked for all the world like Lucy Ricardo sailing along the street honking a small bicycle horn at startled pedestrians. Grange Hews Eagle Point Grange The home economics club of the Eagle Point Grange has change its meeting date be cause of Thanksgiving holi days. A meeting will be held on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 1 p.m. for dessert at the home of Mrs. Edwin Hayes, Bigham rd. Mrs. Bob Bitterling will be co-hostess. An election of 1959 officers was held during the . last meeting. Officers elected during the last meeting at the home of Mrs. Neva Clifford were: Mrs. Jake Brown, chairman; Mrs. Paul Force, vice chairman; Mrs. Tom Vestal, secretary; and Mrs. Edwin Hayes, treas urer. Mrs. Brown's name will be submitted for the approval of master of the Grange. 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