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. Mrs.
Lester Wertz was voted to be
our entry in the Jayceettes
Mother of the Year contest.
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