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at $50,000-a-year salary, early last year. At 59, he's a chunky, talkative man who seems mild until he swings into action. Then he's tough.

>CHARLES A. LINDBERGH--the same "Lone Eagle" who charted the transatlantic air trail-now can wear the U.S. Air Force uniform when called upon to aid the growth of American air power. President Eisenhower last week appointed him a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve, restoring military rank with a promotion from the colonelcy that Mr. Lindbergh resigned in 1941 because of differences with President Roosevelt.

Mr. Lindbergh now is one of the most highly respected technical advisers in the air industry. He considers himself to be on a moment's call by the Air Force.
[[image: black and white photograph of Charles Lindbergh]]
--Harris & Ewing
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
. . . a star for the "Lone Eagle"

felt that way before his new rank was proposed. The Air Force and Navy often call upon him for technical advice. He has shown combat pilots how to nurse more mileage from their gas tanks on long missions, advised the Air Force when it was setting up long-range bombed bases after the war. He has kept pace with the jet age, is retained by Pan American World Airways to advise them on present piston-plane operations, future jet liners.

>SIR RHODERICK McGRIGOR runs the British Navy-and the Navy is in trouble. His proudest ships are packed so full of radar and other new gadgets that crewmen, wedged into cramped quarters, are rebelling with numerous acts of sabotage aimed at the gadgets. [[/column 1]]

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Sir Rhoderick is First Sea Lord, Chief of Naval Staff and a disciplinarian with a reputation for fairness--but is unable to make headway against sailors' bad feelings. Giving up his new radar and fire-control apparatus is unthinkable, so Sir Rhoderick is coming up with this solution: Refit the vessels--even his newest aircraft carrier, the Eagle--to make room for men.

Admiral McGrigor, now 60, has been in the British Navy since he entered cadet school when he was 12 1/2 years old. He took part in Britain's great naval battles of two world wars, from Jutland to the sinking of the Tirpitz, has become a partisan of naval aviation.

>BENJAMIN O. DAVIS, JR., now is being looked over by a Pentagon selection board for promotion that will make him the first Negro general in the U.S. Air Force. Col. Davis already has headed the Fighter Operations branch of the Air Force, moved from that job last June into the kind of post often held by a brigadier general-command of the 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing in Korea.

There is speculation that the White House may choose to announce his promotion in the autumn, when it might have most influence upon Negroes voting in congressional elections. Politics surrounded promotion of his father, Brig. G. B.O. Davis, who is the only Negro general so far in U.S. history. The elder Davis, now retired, got star rank Oct. 16, 1940, after ably serving as an Army officer for 42 years. At that time President Roosevelt was in the middle of his third-term campaign.

Colonel Davis, graduated from West Point in 1936 after surviving the hazing of white cadets, became one of the first Negro fliers in the Army Air Corps in 1941. He commanded the all-Negro 332d Fighter Group, which, in one raid over Berlin, knocked down eight German jet fighters--nemesis of daylight bombers.

>WYNDAL H. HUDSON, a 27-year-old preacher from Scagraves, Tex., is the newest center of a dispute that has plagued Italian police, the Roman Catholic Church and the U.S. State Department for five years. Mr. Hudson is an evangelist of the Church of christ, an American sect that operates 23 churches in Italy and claims nearly 1,000 converts among Italian Catholics.

Police recently ordered Mr. Hudson to cease his church activities. When he defied the order, police raided his church in Leghorn. Ever since entering Catholic Italy in 1949, the church of christ and its 13 American preachers have had trouble. [[/column 2]]

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[[image: black and white photograph of Col. Davis standing in front of a prop plane]] 
--Our World
COLONEL DAVIS
. . . a star for the general's son?

Churches have been closed temporarily some preachers arrested. Police act under a Mussolini law that requires special authorization to open a new church. Mr. Hudson argues that Italy's 1947 constitution, guaranteeing free worship, supersedes Mussolini's law. The U.S. Embassy, asked for aid, is in a ticklish position.
Some Italian church of christ members say they are former Catholics excommunicated for militant Communism. Premier Mario Scelba has said the church was infiltrated by Communists. Church leaders deny any political ties.
[[image:  black and white photograph of Admiral McGrigor, on profile with one hand in his uniform pocket and a pair of binoculars hung around his neck. The mast and flat of a ship is visible in the background.]]
--BIS
ADMIRAL McGRIGOR
. . . proud ships and angry men

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 26, 1954 [[/column 3]]